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

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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.

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

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.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

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