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The developed world needs to feel that these huge levels of poverty (are) a threat to their own security. When their interests are at risk, money can be found.

— Graça Machel West must help Africa on poverty, education: Machel (2009)

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If we are here in solidarity, with this beauty of unity, in our pain, we have to pledge to do something.

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The role tradition has played in the relationship in the family between men and women has been detrimental to women.

Graca Machel: Traditional practices put women in positions of inferiority (2009)

Education, particularly for girls, is a catalyst for reducing child and maternal deaths and lifting people out of poverty.

We need to make the message much clearer -- that aid means saving lives, it’s not a luxury.

West must help Africa on poverty, education: Machel (2009)

Tradition has developed into practices which overtime have become beliefs which in essence they put women in a position of inferiority.

Graca Machel: Traditional practices put women in positions of inferiority (2009)

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