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They were the backbone of reconstruction of our country but at the same time also there was a political will to empower women.

— Mathilde Mukantabana

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It is the state’s responsibility to protect the freedom and human rights of all people within its borders.

Rwanda would have been called a “failed state,” but people refused to surrender to despair.

But you can move forward and you can actually find strength by acknowledging even your frailties as human being.

That change is key, because full development cannot happen if half the people of Africa are not fully recognized as equal partners in society.

But you can't just come with promises of better things when you are not really offering anything.

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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

James Connolly

There is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

Thomas Ford

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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