Winnie Byanyima Quotes

#1. What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.

Winnie Byanyima

#2. We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.

Winnie Byanyima

#3. neither the NAACP nor any other predominantly African American organization filed an amicus brief challenging Japanese internment in the World War II case of Korematsu v. United States.

Richard Delgado

#4. By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.

Winnie Byanyima

#5. This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.

Craig Ferguson

#6. Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a Fife mining town but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible.

John Burnside

#7. It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population - that's three and a half billion people - own no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all fit comfortably on a double-decker bus.

Winnie Byanyima

#8. Bravery is not man's monopoly.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.

Gautama Buddha

#10. Reading is one of the greatest gifts given to humankind.

John Patrick Hickey

#11. There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.

John Bunyan

#12. A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But having made the case we are now seeing an emerging consensus among business leaders, economic leaders, political leaders and even faith leaders.

Winnie Byanyima

#13. The price we pay for being different may be severe.

Unknown

#14. Another World Is Possible, Without the 1%.

Winnie Byanyima

#15. Climate change is the biggest threat to our chances of winning the fight against hunger.

Winnie Byanyima

#16. In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.

Winnie Byanyima

#17. Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still ... nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.

Emily Dickinson

#18. The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering.

Winnie Byanyima

#19. When good people take you in and treat you good, you ought to try to be good back.

Toni Morrison

#20. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein