By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive – and that precludes everything.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANThe youth are the catalysts for real change.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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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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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do 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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When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it’s not common sense yet.
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It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.
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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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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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Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don’t get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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Being queen is overrated.
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women’s empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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