We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, … - Graca Machel - Quotesmemo.com

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

Popular Topics

Kindly, Important, Motor, Happy, Name, Impossible, Weak, Subject, Soccer, Disco, Lives, Teacher, Period, Once Upon A Time, Pleasures Of Life, Dress, I Like You, Glory, Drama, Stories, Hope, Beach, Butterfly, Football, Character, Culture, Leadership, Worry, Girl, Fly, Peace And Love, Kindness, Beauty, Hip Hop, Integrity, Pregnancy, Gossip, Education, Difference, Flower, Inspire, Home, Lifetime, Private Life, Angry, Quiet, World, Philosophy, Achievement, Looking For Love

Graca Machel

We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.

Community, Girl, Impoverish, Practice, Practices, Women

Same Author Quotes

Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mind-set of youth today.

Conflicts, Mean, Mind, Preventing, Today

In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.

Children, Common, Force, Support, Teamwork, Unifying

It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth – to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people.

Dignity, Fight, Fighting, People, Trying

The impact of armed conflict on children is everyone's responsibility. And it must be everyone's concern.

Armed, Children, Concern, Impact, Responsibility

Similar Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Friendship, Masterpiece, Nature, Patience, Reckoned, Relationship

Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman

Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

Surprise, Hindsight, Bias, Surprises, Vanish

M. C. Escher

M. C. Escher

Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the crystallographers, have had considerable influence on my work of the last twenty years. The laws of the phenomena around us--order, regularity, cyclical repetition, and renewals--have assumed greater and greater importance for me. The awareness of their presence gives me peace and provides me with support. I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.

Beautiful, Gives, Knowledge, Law, Order, World

Nicholas Negroponte

Nicholas Negroponte

You go to developing countries today and you'll find automobiles that you haven't seen since you're childhood and that's because they really are valuable, they're taken care of, they're repaired, and when something breaks, they just don't buy a new one, they actually fix it.

Buy, Childhood, Country, Taken, Today, Valuable

Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson

I have a strong spiritual life. I can't say that I have faith that Jesus is my Savior, but I look at Jesus in the same way that I look at, you know, Mohammed. He was giving everyone the goods. So was Gandhi.

Giving, Jesus, Know, Say, Spiritual, Strong