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"The best advice I got was that “the best way to predict the future is to create it”."
"I have always been someone with a wandering mind."
"I always find solutions to problems that I have with slow pace systems in our country and society in general."
"More women need to take bold steps into fields that aren’t traditionally attractive to women; for example fashion, beauty, culinary arts, which are all great but within our comfort zone which is keeping us away from tapping into medicine, engineering, coding, agriculture, etc."
"I have been in rooms with women brainstorming and I just think we are such powerful problem solvers who can conquer any challenge out there; so I just invite more ladies to lose the inner critic and take that leap into tech and other non-traditional female enterprises."
"We are the change makers"
""women are mother’s of the nation”."
"From Student To Teacher: How Lillian Moremi Shows Youth the Way (20 November 2020), By Young African Leaders Initiative"
"Botswana: 'We Need to Educate Women!, ( August 2014) by Levi Mberego"
"Lillian Nkosazana Moremi Interview (September 2017)"
"Let’s remain patient and keep our eyes on the ball.”"
"There is always light at the end of the tunnel."
"As youth, we should never give up on our dreams no matter how hard things may be."
"self-empowerment is the best way to help ourselves find opportunities of growth and work"
"Young people should continue to lead their own learning from the people they meet, the events they go to, and the books they read."
"“Your voice is important. Use it!”"
"Identify a challenge in your area and see how best you can help."
"Young women need to invest in their personal development and we need to educate women especially in the rural areas who don't understand much about their rights."
"All of us have to act responsibly."
"“In Africa culture plays a significant role in molding our society because we have a deeply rooted cultural background. We need to to be able to eliminate the good and the bad from our cultural practices and see how we can encourage good practices such as breast feeding and see how we can talk against early child marriages and genitalia mutilation.”"
"“It is important to appreciate that there is value in listening to others’ opinions. Even if you may not agree, they bring the much-needed objectivity to your point of view.”"
"“I find something interesting in my country that Agricultural demonstrators from the Government go to the cattle post, the farms and rural areas to give the cows their bolus but we don't have health care workers who do such health outreaches to immunize babies.”"
"“Ladies and gentlemen let us understand that political will and commitment is just not in signing treaties and attending high level meetings.It is increasing National budget for the health sector. It is in having adolescent and gender responsive policies and programming.”"
"“The two biggest challenges that i face all my life as a young leader has always been my age and gender. Coming from an exclusively patriarchal or masculine society rather l have always been perceived to be a bit of a wrong gender to achieve and reach certain milestones and a bit too young to dream, to be ambitious to be an active agent of change and a catalyst of development.”"
"“Being a humanitarian or an active agent of change is not an activity you will one day outgrow, its also not a job that you can retire or resign from. It is part of who I am, My purpose”."
"“Recommendations are there we already know what needs to be done. What we need is action, action and more action. We need to make sure relevant stakeholders are involved, young people need to be on the forefront.”"
"“To the girl child i want to say you are amazing. The world is really unfair but it owes you absolutely nothing. Every rejection that is thrown at you, use it to build your own strength.” Gogontlejang Phaladi, Powerful women in Botswana , YouTube (25 February 2017). Retrieved 24 November 2021."
"“I value conversations with people who come from a different background from me. There is a lot of humility you learn through listening to others and allowing yourself to be guided by the wisdom of others. This also helped me a lot professionally, personally and socially”. Gogontlejang Phaladi, Gogontlejang Phaladi: Where there is passion, there is an undying spirit of persistence by Nonofo Nkwe."
"“Every child has the right to be educated. Education in Botswana must be compulsory.”"
"“We children have been missing from the picture for more than two decades when talking about issues of HIV/AIDS.”"
"“We cannot wait another 25 years. We need to push for accountability to make sufficient progress in addressing the current government deficit to deliver on the sexual and reproductive health and rights commitments for women.”"
"“Stand up and take action. Refuse to be silent."
"“If you don’t have a seat at the table, you will sit on the floor."
"Stand up, rise up and push forward for a better Africa. Nobody is going to do this for us. We need to do it for ourselves”."
"The bottom line here is that in actual historical fact, Turks were not like Nazis; Armenians were not like Jews; and attempts to convince Americans that they were are propaganda, not history. The Armenian tragedy was real and terrible, but it was not the only terrible tragedy in Turkey in 1915 and it wasn’t genocide; it was that in the midst of a wider war that brought death and destruction to millions on all sides, nationalist Armenians fought a war to claim a piece of Turkey for a country of their own, and lost."
"We can't let lone nutters get in the way of progress [...] #endwhitepeople [...] I'm not talking about wiping out people who identify as whites, it's about ending white privilege. [...] Show me in the UN OSAPG framework where it says whites are a protected group? genocide is only applicable to protected groups."
"Being jewish is a tangible unbroken form of identity going back 3000 years, whiteness is a construct from 200 ybp."
"I think there is a resurgence of anti-Semitism because at this point in time Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural, and I think we are going to be part of that transformation which must take place. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies the once were in the last century. Jews are going to be at the center of that. It's a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode and Jews will be resented because of our leading role. But without that leading role, and without that transformation, Europe will not survive."
"Be your own hero.” — From a statement featured as her personal motto on her Twitter cover photo, reflecting her philosophy toward personal drive and achievement"
"I would always push women towards more of learning the datasets behind anything that they’re trying to build, get information on it and, if you don’t have it, let’s talk with partnership organisations to see what information they may have. And if they still don’t have it, this is where you come in to build a solution that incorporates some of that."
"Technology makes you have to think outside of the box.” On how tech drives innovation and problem-solving in business and society"
"The key. Is oering things that make that type of impact towards their careers. And the end result is seeing some of those girls and the things that they've accomplished within their chosen eld or their entrepreneurship journey. And then being able to mark that as well. This was impactful. This made a dierence. And I helped make that dierence, so my job is complete, because now I have essence of self gratication. And that feels really good."
"Sometimes you have to take a hard decision and when you take such a decision, you have to stand by it. It’s not everybody who sees what you are seeing."
"As a people, we have the power of choice. We get to choose who we are, what we become, and what we do."
"When you are pursuing your dreams and trying to leave a legacy, you will find help."
"There are Challenges everywhere you must have Tenacity; you must have the strength of character not to cheat."
""I also apply wisdom most of the time""
"Financial services are the lifeblood of an economy, enabling households and businesses alike to save, invest, and protect themselves against risk."
""In life, you decide on those things that are important to you,""
""I said to myself I could do this, and I could do it right""