"Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us."

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Source : "Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Speaks on Governance, Elections and Other Issues". Interview with Abdoulaye W. Dukulé, www.theperspective.org. May 6, 2005.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

#Life Quotes #Unique Quotes #Ethnicity Quotes

“Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.”

Source : "If You Saw My Talk at South By Southwest..." by Henry Jenkins, henryjenkins.org. March 10, 2008.
“Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.”
“As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.”
“I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.”
“Whenever, in any century, whether in a single heart or in a company of believers, there has been a fresh effusion of the Spirit, there has followed inevitably a fresh endeavor in the work of evangelizing the world.”
“Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.”
“Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.”
“Why would the God of the universe want to be submitted to me?' Because we want you to join us in our circle of relationship. I don't want slaves to my will; I want brothers and sisters who will share life with me.”

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