Graca Machel Quotes

• Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mind-set of youth today.

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  Mean, Mind, Today

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• We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.

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  Girl, Practice, Community

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• In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.

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  Teamwork, Children, Support

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• It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth - to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people.

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  Fighting, People, Trying

  "Graça Machel on Mandela: 'I learned to separate the man from the myth'" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2013.

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• The impact of armed conflict on children is everyone's responsibility. And it must be everyone's concern.

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  Children, Responsibility, Impact

  Graça Machel (2001). “The Impact of War on Children: A Review of Progress Since the 1996 United Nations Report on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children”, p.13, C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS

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