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In my mind, as a child at that time, the only way to escape poverty was to go to school. It was at that time that I decided to commit myself to school.

— Ann Itto Leonardo

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Being a female politician in a highly patriarchal society such as South Sudan is never easy. But more and more women are breaking down the gender-related barriers that held their predecessors back.

Our political parties are not creating enough forums for women to understand who they are. I am trying to say women are watching every political party in South Sudan.

If we train our people and take this seriously, it will save South Sudan money because you will not spend money again to train people because you will use the money paid as membership fees.

The support we have has to go through the national parliament; those are constituencies of the national parliament. Whatever program we get, we have to work with the national parliament.

Our women in the rural areas will be engaged by the national parliament in Juba because we cannot work directly with them because we are a regional parliament.

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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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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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