Greg Mortenson Quotes

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• When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

  Greg Mortenson

  Funny Inspirational, Children, Humility

  Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.140, Penguin

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• If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Women, Boys

  Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.27, Penguin

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• If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Fighting, Hygiene

  "Three Cups of Tea". Book by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, 2007.

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• Certainly I am sometimes afraid, but my hope is greater than my fear, and the biggest enemy we all face is ignorance which breeds hatred, whether it be in America, or Afghanistan, or anywhere. We owe it to our children that we may give them all a legacy of peace, but it will take courage and compassion.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, Ignorance, Compassion

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If you really want to change a culture... empower women.

  Greg Mortenson

  Empowering, Culture, Want

  Greg Mortenson (2008). “Three Cups Of Tea”, p.329, Penguin UK

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• Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Home, Fighting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ...education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, regardless of how long it may take, how many obstacles must be surmounted, or how much money it will cost. It is by such promises that the balance sheet of one's life is measured.

  Greg Mortenson

  School, Commitment, Long

  Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.60, Penguin

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• I've had two fatwas issued against me by despot mullahs opposed to education - and important to know that the great majority of Imams and Islamic religious leaders support education for all children.

  Greg Mortenson

  Religious, Children, Islamic

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, Hate, People

  Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (2009). “Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time”, p.138, Penguin

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• In times of war, you often hear leaders—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—saying, ‘God is on our side.’ But that isn’t true. In war, God is on the side of refugees, widows, and orphans.

  Greg Mortenson

  Christian, War, Widows And Orphans

  "Three Cups of Tea". Book by Greg Mortenson, books.google.ru. 2006.

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• I'm no military expert, and these figures might not be exactly right,' I said. 'But as best I can tell, we've launched 114 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Afghanistan so far. Now take the cost of one of those missiles, tipped with a Raytheon guidance system, which I think is about $840,000. For that much money, you could build dozens of schools that could provide tens of thousands of students with a balanced, non extremist education over the course of a generation. Which do you think will make us more secure?

  Greg Mortenson

  Military, School, Thinking

  Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.178, Penguin

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• There is still a desperate need for investment and promotion of education in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Official figures put Pakistan literacy rate over 45%, but in many rural areas we work it is about 10-15%, and for girls even lower.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Literacy, Investment

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When your kids accomplish something it means much more than anything you've done.

  Greg Mortenson

  Mean, Kids, Done

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• Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat Ali began the first classes by reading to them from poetry and religious texts. "Reading, literature, and spirituality are good for the soul," he told them. "So we will start with these studies.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Religious, Reading

  Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.149, Penguin

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• One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, War, Hate

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

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• According to UNESCO: there are over 154 million children in the world deprived of education due to poverty, slavery, racism, religious extremism, gender discrimination, and geographical isolation. The cost to educate a child in the third world is about $ 1 per month per child. To achieve global literacy, the investment would be $ 8 billion per year for 15 years.

  Greg Mortenson

  Religious, Children, Racism

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We all sat there laughing and sipping tea peacefully, an infidel and representatives from three warring sects of Islam. And I thought if we can get along this well, we can accomplish anything. The British policy was ‘divide and conquer.’ But I say ‘unite and conquer.

  Greg Mortenson

  Laughing, Tea, Islam

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• If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, Military, War

  Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (2006). “Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time”, p.366, Penguin

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• You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Hands, Bombs

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• I've actually spent about half of my life overseas in the third world. I grew up in Tanzania, East Africa, and later lived in South-West Asia. In general, everywhere I go, I am treated with great respect and hospitality, but I need to be sensitive to cultural, tribal and ethical customs of the local people. In this modern era of technology, I think we forget that the most important thing when traveling is to listen and learn, and establish relationship, and not be hidden behind technology like Goretex, emails, satellite phones, and insulated from the people around you.

  Greg Mortenson

  Thinking, Technology, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life...We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country of thirty-minute power lunches and two-minute football drills. Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

  Greg Mortenson

  Country, Football, Thinking

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• Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu

  Greg Mortenson

  Ties, Camels, Trust In Allah

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• the people who live in the last places - the people who are most neglected and least valued by the larger world - often represent the best of who we are and the finest standard of what we are meant to become. This is the power that last places hold over me, and why I have found it impossible to resist their pull.

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  People, World, Who We Are

  Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.41, Penguin

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• . . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

  Greg Mortenson

  Past, Perspective, Found

  Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.33, Penguin

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• You have to attack the source of your enemy’s strength. In America’s case, that’s not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. The only way to defeat it is to build relationships with those people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever.

  Greg Mortenson

  Ignorance, Fighting, America

  Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (2006). “Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time”, p.377, Penguin

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