Sam Yagan Quotes

Something like a quarter of the founders that have gone through Excelerate and Techstars are women. I'm incredibly proud of that.

Sam Yagan

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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

J. C. Watts
- Up
- Growing
- Action
I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.

Nancy Pelosi
- Women
- Experience
- Power
I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

Warren Farrell
- World
- Women
- Today
In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Wangari Maathai
- Women
- Food
- Water
Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Taslima Nasrin
- Men
- Women
- Nature
I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

B. B. King
- Music
- God
- Women