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> [I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-lewis/i-think-when-you-ve-travelled-around-a-lot-in-africa-you-understand/)

[Stephen Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-lewis/)

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## More by Stephen Lewis

> [“And there’s one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates the soul of South Africa is mirrored in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-lewis/and-there-s-one-other-matter-i-must-raise-the-epidemic-of-domestic/)

[Stephen Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-lewis/)

> [It is always the village women who drive these things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-lewis/it-is-always-the-village-women-who-drive-these-things/)

[Stephen Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-lewis/)

> [I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-lewis/i-m-still-at-the-end-of-my-rope-because-i-find-myself-not-handling/)

[Stephen Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-lewis/)

> [Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-lewis/men-haven-t-changed-their-behaviour-so-women-somehow-have-to-be/)

[Stephen Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-lewis/)

> [I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-lewis/i-think-when-you-ve-travelled-around-a-lot-in-africa-you-understand/)

[Stephen Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-lewis/)

> [But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-lewis/but-i-don-t-want-to-leave-until-i-see-the-breakthrough/)

[Stephen Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-lewis/)

> [One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-lewis/one-is-that-if-women-s-sexuality-in-africa-wasn-t-under-assault-if/)

[Stephen Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-lewis/)

> [“There’s neither need nor justification to wallow in the trough of mediocrity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-lewis/there-s-neither-need-nor-justification-to-wallow-in-the-trough-of/)

[Stephen Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-lewis/)

> [I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-lewis/i-was-working-for-the-socialist-international-after-i-left-university/)

[Stephen Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-lewis/)

> [Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-lewis/young-women-adolescent-girls-are-more-subject-to-infection-sometimes/)

[Stephen Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-lewis/)

> [I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-lewis/i-learned-later-just-as-a-footnote-that-the-world-assembly-of-youth/)

[Stephen Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-lewis/)

> [I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-lewis/i-m-in-a-great-rage-now-as-i-understand-how-many-lives-we-have-lost/)

[Stephen Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-lewis/)

> [The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-lewis/the-pandemic-of-aids-is-a-gender-based-disease/)

[Stephen Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-lewis/)

> [Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-lewis/unless-there-is-recognition-that-women-are-most-vulnerable-and-you-do/)

[Stephen Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-lewis/)

> [It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-lewis/it-gives-one-hope-this-great-strength-of-africa/)

[Stephen Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-lewis/)

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