Mary Kom Quotes
I'm grateful to the state and central government for all their support for my academy.
Kom, M.C. Mary. Interview. The Times of India, 5 May 2015.
What made the situation worse at the time that the same big banks who got government bailouts to prevent failure and received the 0.75 percent rate, turned around and lent the money to the students not only charging them 9 times what they paid for the money, but also getting a government guarantee that the loans would be repaid and/or government prohibition of students going bankrupt and discharging their debt like any other American in financial difficulty. So the banks made huge profits and yet took no risk—a strange notion in capitalism.
Social Security was part of FDR’s New Deal legislation. It was passed in the middle of the Great Depression in 1936. By the end of the 20th century many people had forgotten or never learned that Social Security was a government social program. It provided relieve for two of the biggest social problems—old age retirement and disability. Most people have no idea that they had disability insurance covered by Social Security throughout their working lives unless they happened to be disabled. The price of a comparable private disability plan would be substantial, yet it is a benefit that most people have and few know it.
There are a few exceptions where the teachers are allowed to share much of the policy making. When that does happen, they too have autonomy to protect. But in most school systems teachers have no power and are rarely consulted or given any voice about policies. They then have no autonomy to protect.
Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom is an Indian amateur boxer, politician, and incumbent Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha. She is the only female to become World Amateur Boxing champion for a record six times, the only female boxer to have won a medal in each one of the first seven World Championships, and the only boxer (male or female) to win eight World Championship medals. Nicknamed Magnificent Mary, she is the only Indian female boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing in the flyweight (51 kg) category and winning a bronze medal. She had also been ranked as the world's No. 1 female light-flyweight by the International Boxing Association (amateur) (AIBA). She became the first Indian female boxer to win a gold medal in the Asian Games in 2014 at Incheon, South Korea and is the first Indian female boxer to win gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She is also the only boxer to become Asian Amateur Boxing Champion for a record six times.
