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If you’re coming to be an activist because you want to make money: NO!

— Leymah Gbowee

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Women bring the human side of the conflict on the table.

Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.

If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers.

"All across Africa, even in the midst of the deepest and darkest civil war, women are still proving that we can hold communities together."

I work with many young people and their commitment to improvement is the greatest resource we cannot afford to squander.

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

Étienne de La Boétie Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548)

Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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