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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANGood teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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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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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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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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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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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 lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
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The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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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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Modernity is not about dress codes.
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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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I don’t believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other.
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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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