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…

— Stephen Lewis

It is always the village women who drive these things.

— Stephen Lewis

I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.

— Stephen Lewis

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

— 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…

— Stephen Lewis

But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.

— 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…

— Stephen Lewis

“There’s neither need nor justification to wallow in the trough of mediocrity.”

— Stephen Lewis

I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.

— Stephen Lewis

Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you…

— Stephen Lewis

I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.

— Stephen Lewis

I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.

— Stephen Lewis

The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.

— 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…

— Stephen Lewis

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

— Stephen Lewis

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.

— Stephen Lewis

The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.

— Stephen Lewis