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  • Dream Big: Embrace Fear for Success

    ‘If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.‘― Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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  • Set your own dreams

    ‘Set your own course, set your own dreams, and go where you want to go, even if nobody has gone there before.‘― Anne Richards

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  • Women can perform

    ‘If you give us a chance, women can perform. After all, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.‘― Anne Richards

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  • True Identity

    ‘I am just one of millions of people who have been told that in order to fulfill my dreams, in order to contribute my talents to the world, I have to resist the truth of who I am. I for one am ready to stop resisting and to start existing as my and authentic self. My identity is not my obstacle. My identity is my superpower. Because the truth is, I am what the world looks like.‘― America Ferrera

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  • The Power of Stories in Empowerment

    ‘Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.‘― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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  • Mary Beard on Power and Women in Society

    ‘If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?‘― Mary Beard

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  • Eleanor Roosevelt: A Guide to Inner Strength

    ‘Do what you feel in your heart to. be right – for you’ll be critisised anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.‘― Eleanor Roosevelt

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  • The Importance of Universal Human Rights at Home

    ‘Where, after all, do universal human rights begin ? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person, the neighbourhood he lives in, the school or college he attends, the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home,…

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  • The light of truth

    ‘The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.‘― Ida B. Wells

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  • Real Freedom

    ‘We all are freer when every one of us is free. We all have more opportunity when everyone has opportunity.‘― Hillary Clinton

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