Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Quotes

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• We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a…
• There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.
• If your dreams don't scare you, you aren't dreaming big enough.
• The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children…
• I believe that there are certain attributes in a woman that give her some advantages over a man. Women are usually more honest, more sensitive…
• Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.
• Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.
• We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola,
• Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe,
• If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
• The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big…
• I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So…
• As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and…
• When I took office, Liberia began to recover from years of neglect. Our people have brought clean water into the heart of Monrovia to children…
• The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength…
• Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.
• I think the majority of the Liberian people want peace.
• All girls know that they can be anything now. That transformation is to me one of the most satisfying things.
• I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep.
• If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough.

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