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Poverty is no excuse. Development aid has to be linked to economic development

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If I’m teaching young people to use their voices and be active in making their lives a success.

Once others hear your voice loud and clear, they realise you exist.

If it’s just about my brother, I’ll never be a role model.

How can you tear-gas your own people? Listen to them. Listen to these children; they’re the future.

You can’t do this or that because you’re a girl. Or, You have to do this because you’re a girl. I asked Why? I’m a human being first.

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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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