"Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty."

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Source : "Make Combating Child Marriage a U.S. Foreign Policy Priority" by Helene D. Gayle, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2012.

Helene D. Gayle

#Community Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.”
“It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall.”

Source : "I Ain't Marchin' Anymore" (song) (1965)
“If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.”
“Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.”

Source : "Pogo". Comic strip by Walt Kelly, 1948 - 1975.
“That's in the First Amendment?”

Source : "Media Twist O’Donnell-Coons Exchange on Church and State". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. October 19, 2010.
“Confidence is a big part of any sport, but as far as sports psycholgy, I met with one last year before the season, and hell I just felt stupid after that, so I try to stay out of there.”
“It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.”
“Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.”

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