"I'm not taking power. I'm catalyzing systemic change."

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Source : "Ashraf Ghani: U.S. Critical To Afghanistan's Future". "The Two-Way" with David Greene, Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 22, 2015.

Ashraf Ghani

“I am an African and I am very proud of that.”

Source : "New international war crimes prosecutor sworn in", www.foxnews.com. June 15, 2012.
“My parents were supportive. But they were scared. We were undocumented. We came to the U.S. on a tourist visa and overstayed. They applied for a green card right away but it took us 12 years to get it, so for me, from the ages of 7 to 19.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.”
“Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because it is through change that we pretend that we can make decisions, and keep our pride, and go on pretending that both change and choice exist.”
“Somebody said they seen her heading out of town, now she ran away with a rodeo clown.”
“Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way.”

Source : Mirabai, “Your Slander Is Sweet”
“The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor -- spending and being spent -- to enrich their fellow humans, giving time, trouble, care and concern, to do good to others -- and not just their own friends -- in whatever way there seems need.”
“Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help to protect them from racial discrimination. The new â€˜niggersâ€™ are gays. It is in this sense that gay people are the new barometer for social change. The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind: gay people.”

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