Jenni Williams Quotes
born 1962 Zimbabwe
Jenni Williams (born 1962) is a Zimbabwean human rights activist and a founder of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza).
Random Jenni Williams quote
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Don't be afraid of who you are.
Judging by the constellations just starting to glint into life, the scent of the wind and the texture of the earth... I would say we're precisely in the middle of nowhere.
Protests are not called by social network media, as some people want to portray
This pain is not a weakness. It is strength. Our grief binds us. Do you feel it?
Our armies, with their shining armour and singing swords are rust and dusty bones. We are like... an echo of something that came before.
In some ways, my blood has been too black to be beautiful
I was empty, just a thing for gathering dust, and now I am full of something, and if that causes me to make poor decisions, then I will live with it. Or die with it. I don't care.
People assume that people on the ground know what the Arab Spring is
There is, it seems to me, a certain type of man who is terrified of the idea of a woman wielding power, of any sort; the type of man who is willing to dress up his terror in any sort of trappings to legitimise it.
Protests are called by … knocking on people's doors, talking to them, engaging them, understanding their issues and getting collective understanding of people power and the right to protest and how it can be exercised
I just want to be able to have my kids have jobs and I want to be able to afford their schooling
Dark things are happening here, don't be getting me wrong. Young people lost, their poor families going out of their minds, and that evil thing lurking... It should have been dealt with a long time ago, but how could we have known?
Because whoever it is, I’m sure I’ve already forgotten them. I can barely keep track of your brief human lives, you know here one moment gone the next. I should keep a list, so I can tick the names off as they depart.
There was too much, but every moment they were inside she was aware of the terrible danger they were in, and she had the distinct sense that her luck was now the thinnest piece of fragile ice, and they were edging out further and further over and abyss.