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born 1958
Mathilde Mukantabana (born 1958) is a Rwandan politician and diplomat born in Butare, currently working as the Rwanda's ambassador to the United States and non-resident Ambassador to Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. She is the President and co-founder of the non-profit Friends of Rwanda Association (F.O.R.A.).
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It is the state’s responsibility to protect the freedom and human rights of all people within its borders.
Rwanda would have been called a “failed state,” but people refused to surrender to despair.
But you can move forward and you can actually find strength by acknowledging even your frailties as human being.
That change is key, because full development cannot happen if half the people of Africa are not fully recognized as equal partners in society.
But you can't just come with promises of better things when you are not really offering anything.
Giving a forum to promote genocide ideology is laying a breeding ground for preparation of future genocide.
Sometimes we look at Rwanda with genocide, Most of the time we don’t look at the incredible culture, the people.
If you dream of something that can break boundaries, Rwanda is the place to be.
We must remember not to dwell on the past, but to strive for a better future.
You can’t embrace if you believe somebody is more superior than you are.
You have to own up first, you have to own your own failures.
The potential failure to learn from history carries risks.
You can’t really solve problems without linking with regional entities because the problems of one country become the problem of another country.
Rwandans became agents of their own destinies.
The commemoration is a healing experience.
The notion of forgiveness is at the core of our being and has become our duty.
We’re a small country, but we have our own dignity.
We only need to change one thing: is social norms. Kids learn on the laps of their parents, the way you treat women is the same way your sons will treat them.
For me this land is not about what it produced, but about the people, where I was born and raised.
They were the backbone of reconstruction of our country but at the same time also there was a political will to empower women.
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