Winnie Byanyima Quotes

Civil society space provides the oxygen for citizens to participate and meaningfully hold their governments and the private sector to account - and ensure that decisions are made in the interest of the majority and not the few. Without it, citizens have limited space to dissent and challenge the elites.

Winnie Byanyima

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: January 13, 1959

Topics

ChallengeSpaceSocietyDecisions

If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

ChangePeopleThinkNothingAccept

I'm not here to impose Sharia law, and I'm not here to have a message about disability being inspirational - I'm here to make people laugh. But when I can layer things and make people not only laugh but question, make people not only laugh but be offended... I have to do that.

Maysoon Zayid

InspirationalPeopleLawLaughI Can

If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject.

John Jay Hooker

FriendHopeI AmMeConstitution

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.

John Shelton Reed

MusicPeopleCountryCountry Music

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

Sue Townsend

LifeWritingMy LifeEarlyBecome

As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.

Troy Polamalu

FootballPeopleGameInjuriesYou

My mother, Marnie Fahr Steyer, was a lifelong smoker - up to three packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day. I like to think that, if Mom were still with us today, she'd be happy with the strides we've made to protect our children from the ongoing health crisis of tobacco addiction.

Tom Steyer

MotherTodayChildrenHealthDay

Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.

Robert Dallek

VoiceCongressOppositionPublic

And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.

Rosamund Pike

SmileTogetherPeoplePrideDoing

That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.

Mary McDonnell

LeaderMomentThinkPoliticalDone

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

Jay Chiat

WorkGreatPoliticsArchitecture

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

LoveHappinessGratitudeExperience

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