Jacqueline Moudeina

"The rights of human beings continue to be violated because the perpetrators of the most atrocious acts enjoy total impunity."

"After the presidential elections in May 2001, we wrote a motion of protest against France’s involvement in maintaining “autocratic regimes in Chad” that we intended to submit to the Ambassador in Ndjamena during a peaceful protest in front of the French Embassy. Army units surrounded us and a grenade exploded between my legs."

"Villages were pillaged … people who sought refuge inside churches were burnt, as buildings collapsed under the government’s fire"

"Today, the last pieces were taken away from me, and I no longer sound."

"It's the part of naiveté I have left because I don't have the right to fail. A case like this is, above all, a succession of failures and disillusionments."

"In fact, I continued to attend classes, but through the classroom window, and while answering questions from the teacher I had slapped. A sister, whom I loved very much, said to me: "You're a rebel, a child who became an adult a little too soon. Go, go back to class."

"I am a Protestant raised by Catholic sisters while remaining deeply Protestant. I am the voice of orphans."