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My life was safeguarded when thousands mobilized around the world to free me from imprisonment, and my life was spared by individual acts of compassion by some of my captors.

— 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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