Winnie Byanyima Quotes
We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
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Ever since Modi became prime minister, he has given a free rein to his ministers and BJP functionaries to create an environment of communal tension and violence.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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I think the way to be a writer is to experience things, certainly, and be open to things, but at some point to become dedicated to the craft of writing and to create a stable environment for that writing to occur in.
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
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'System' is the concept that refers both to a complex of interdependencies between parts, components, and processes, that involves discernible regularities of relationships, and to a similar type of interdependency between such a complex and its surrounding environment.
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The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.
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We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.
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Enterprise zones have succeeded in attracting needed capital to our urban poverty centers. Businesses and investors that wouldn't otherwise give these blighted areas a second glance react to the incentives and invest.
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There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
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It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.
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Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
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India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.
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The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment.
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We need to recover our true nature by relocating ourselves on this planet, being respectful of our environment, and living in harmony with other species - like a big family.
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I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel - that would be a beautiful message in terms of technology, the energy of the future and the environment.
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I don't believe environment has the slightest bit to do with anything - I only believe in ancestral influence. It would have made no difference whether I'd been brought up in a reform school, or on the island of Lesbos.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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There are very few fishermen left today.
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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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I was lucky, life provided a chance to work with great directors and actors.
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We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.
