"I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance."

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Source : Emmanuel Jal (2009). “War Child: A Child Soldier's Story”, p.190, Macmillan

Emmanuel Jal

#Challenges Quotes #That One Person Quotes #Chance Quotes

“Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.”
“Teaching in Providence and Oakland, I realized that the first thing is that it wasn't good enough to come in and assume that I had what my students needed in terms of knowledge and skills. I also had to show them that I was their ally. I had to show them that I was concerned about them, wanted to relate to them, and that I was fundamentally on their side.”
“From a relatively early age I got interested in business”
“Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.”
“I want to go to my grave a free man. Surviving against giants-that's victory.”
“In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?”
“Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other good causes.”
“Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.”

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