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It is going to take a holistic approach for this to get contained because when you don’t address the issue of poverty. teenage pregnancies will continue rising.

— Rachael Magoola

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There is a breakdown in the way our system is working because you should be able to foresee things.

I kept thinking that we can do better and leaders are the foundation of making change.

Their attraction to education is less because the peers around them are not attending school, kids are not going to school for lack of basic necessities.

There is time for everything. When you are entertaining communities, that is entertainment. When you are playing politics, that is politics. If you mix the two, there is likely to be a clash.

when people start dying, they don't just start dying all of a sudden. It means this problem has been brewing for a few months.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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