"We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals."

-- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

#Goal Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Failure is my specialty.”
“I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely.”
“Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.”
“The fruit of your life will be what you believe you are.”
“My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.”
“As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.”

Source : Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage
“That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on”
“Im living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.”

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