We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, ‘Well, that’s their problem.’ But it’s not. … When you solve somebody else’s problem, you’re solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
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Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone’s rights. It’s where we’re reminded that we’re all human and all equal. It’s where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive – and that precludes everything.
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Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.
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I don’t know if I’d put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.
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Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
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I don’t believe that there is fair enough understanding of either our status as women or the total context of our lives, which is very rich and multi-faceted.
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The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Being queen is overrated.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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I don’t think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
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Look at any country that’s plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society’s ills.
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The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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