Amanda Lindhout Quotes

Canadian - Journalist | June 12, 1981 -

The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.

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The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?

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It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

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My confidence came from the way I grew up, and I'm grateful for it.

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I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

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I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.

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Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.

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The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women's freedoms in southern Somalia - that type of mentality - that's what I had to deal with in captivity.

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The countries with the greatest problems have the kindest people.

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After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

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When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.

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Going into Somalia, I didn't anticipate how many people's lives would be affected by it. In hindsight, I certainly wish I had taken more time to think about that, but I can't change it.

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