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“We have long known that African women are the backbone of our societies. Now, we are building the House that their leadership deserves.”

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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” The success of the initiative depends on every Liberian seeing education as the foundation of development and acting to support it”.

To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice.

Once the glass ceiling has been broken, it can never be put back together, however one would try to do that.

“People must believe that if they invest, farm, or start a business, they will have the opportunity to succeed.”

"I don't think someone should be expelled because of freedom of speech."

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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