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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANGood 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 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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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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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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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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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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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It’s really your essence and your values that are important.
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Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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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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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 there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other.
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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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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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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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