Winnie Byanyima Quotes

Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices.

Winnie Byanyima

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

OpportunityPowerChoicesResult

The ancients often believed a celestial event like an eclipse to be a bad omen, that the sun or the moon vanishing from the sky was a harbinger of disaster, a sign of devastation or destruction to come.

Jenna Wortham

SkySunMoonBadDisasterEclipse

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.

Jaron Lanier

SenseAny

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

Jonathan Lethem

PeopleBattleWhiteClassPoor

Each book first begins with a little idea.

Dick Bruna

BookFirstLittleBeginsIdeaEach

Shared dining fortifies us.

Deng Ming-Dao

DiningUsShared

You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

Brian Mulroney

NameYouDoneThingsPrimeBecause

But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial.

Aristide Briand

I AmViewPoliticalPoint Of View

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead

MindThings HappenHappenAnalysis

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

Peter Benchley

RespectRainManTreatLearnForest

Nas always been my favorite rapper, but 50 Cent, he changed my way of thinking about music 'cause he was so detailed in his music, I knew that wasn't lying. I never felt Tupac that way; I never felt Biggie that way. I love Nas music, but I never felt and believed like, 'This is for real.' 'Cause I grew up that gangsta lifestyle.

Schoolboy Q

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He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

Thomas Paine

DeathWarHellNationWholeLoose

The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

Richard J. Daley

PoliceCreateHereDisorderPreserve

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