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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I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
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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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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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The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people.
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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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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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We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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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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Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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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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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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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Modernity is not about dress codes.
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