All Quotes

"Equality is not simply an option: it has to be achieved and efforts must not stop until it is so."

"Public administration and services hold a key position in achieving inclusive growth. It must be possible to offer citizens an opportunity to build the future they want, and the administration must be lighter, more transparent and more innovative than before."

"The economy must grow, but economic growth is not a value in itself; it is primarily a way of increasing the well-being of people and their participation in the functioning of the society."

"Bishop Gilmour had an eventful episcopate, lasting nineteen years. He left his strong, aggressive personality indelibly stamped, upon the diocese he had ruled."

"I used to be called ‘Khiwa’ which means white or ‘nkawu.’ Nkawu is a monkey in my native language. Although my brother would stand up and defend me, he still left school before me, and so I had to learn to stand up for myself and be vocal about what was going on in my life"

"Pageantry has definitely given me a platform to be a voice for those that cannot speak for themselves, a platform where I can empower other women to stand their ground and speak out against issues to do with abuse and discrimination."

"We have old cultural myths that have existed for a very long time. It is believed that people with albinism do not die and there is the misconception that our body parts can be used to heal chronic diseases."

"We have stereotypes that say we are not as equally capable as other people. I have made it my job as an activist to spread the message that we should refuse to be defined by unjustified harmful cultural conspiracy beliefs."

"I am saying as persons with albinism we should not allow someone else to dictate to us. Like all humans we have the freedom of expression, let’s utilise it. I am advocating for change in society and the world at large."

"We have to understand that as citizens of this global village we are all different. There is something unique about each one of us. For persons with albinism, it is their skin. There is a need for society to embrace this uniqueness."

"If traditional leaders, churches, local authorities, policymakers and ordinary citizens start spreading the message of tolerance and inclusiveness, the world will be a better place."

"I discovered in primary school that I was different when other children started asking me questions like, ‘Are your parents white?’ ‘Why is your brother black?’"

"My teachers would make me sit in front because I was short-sighted and then I started questioning all these occurrences. It was painful being the only child in a school of 1 500 pupils who looked different, and people made fun of me."

"At a very young age, children of my age were asking me questions like, ‘What happens to you when you die?’ ‘When will you turn black again?’ ‘What happens if I beat you?’ ‘Why is it you and your sister are different from the rest of your family, are you from another planet?’"

"I had sisters and mothers who told their children and siblings not to play with me. I had relatives who pretended to like me. I was overwhelmed with confusion, I never really knew who honestly cared about me."

"I have told myself that I am equally capable as the next model. Whichever designer, photographer or promoter who will exercise prejudice will miss out on an opportunity to work with this wonderful, hardworking individual. I have also made it a point to bring out my very best when I get a modelling gig."

"We live in a world that questions our capability as women and, in turn, set to marginalise, abuse as well as discriminate against us, but that very same world is diversifying. We have feminists and humanitarian activists who are advocating for change as well as inclusion. It is awful that we spend most of our time fighting but it is also great because we are fighting for something bigger than us."

"A good course that will not benefit only us, but generations to come as well."

"After high school I attended North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University and wanted to be a hardware engineer. My previous exposure to electrical engineering combined with the fact that I was intrigued by circuits and circuit design, helped me to figure out that I wanted to major in Electrical Engineering."

"As an EE major, my first programming classes were Assembly and Fortran. When I graduated, I worked in the private industry as an electrical engineer and began to do more software programming including designing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) designs for circuit board testing and missile and radar systems."

"While trying to figure out what to do next I decided to pursue my interest in gaming and Intelligent Tutoring Systems by enrolling in the Computer Science PhD program at Drexel University."

"My advisors had backgrounds in computer science, gaming, and cognitive psychology. Through coursework and research, I became interested in how the brain processes information. My research focused on behavioral modeling and mobile learning and I focused my dissertation research on creating intelligent tutoring systems for handheld devices, e.g. Palm Pilots, and early handheld devices.While I enjoyed teaching, I also wanted to learn more in the policy arena that could greatly effect the broader community and I decided to apply for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellowship."

"Fortunately, I was selected for the program and took an unpaid leave of absence from Bowie State to do the fellowship at the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC. During the fellowship I worked on a range of projects including broadening participation in computing, computer science education, and the maker movement. I also joined a great team and produced two National Maker Faires that brought together makers from across the country during the National Week of Making."

"Sir, you’ll surely be welcome at our place, poor thought ‘tis,"

"I am sure you will find no better wife anywhere.”"

"This local social history remains to be done, and that's kind of the point of this book."

"Baptiste introduced milling to the Aurès, he built mills, he discovered an archaeological cave that bears his name."

"His memory survives in the north of the massif but hardly any further."

"I worked for twenty years in this region, mainly in the south, without ever hearing a local mountaineer spontaneously talk to me about him."

"Those who knew him, in the north, are now between 70 and 80 years old, so I was ultimately lucky and also helped by young colleagues to find their traces."

"I am not talking here about the researchers, to the extreme modesty, the simplicity of the character, his self-effacing end."

"There is also talk of his son, Chérif, of whom we do not know for sure whether his mother is Chaouia or Italian."

"His mother was indeed Chaouia but he does not have the same aura because his life was rather deviant with regard to local values (woman-lover and probably not very sober, unlike his father)."

"He lived there for 70 years and people speak of him with amused indulgence, which says a lot about the tolerance of a society that is considered closed and rigid."

"The Aurès is not at all what one imagines from the outside!"

"They must have met in the mountains by chance perhaps, the first time, both searching for treasure, a sport common in the massif, for which one needs strong legs, imagination and physical courage."

"Twenty years of age separated them and neither seems to have found any treasure."

"I think it was a beautiful and unexpected meeting, between two men fairly free from prejudice and capable of physical and moral prowess."

"He was already very old. So his support was, according to what I was told, clandestine."

"With this book, somewhere between a portrait and a novel, you depart somewhat from the pure sociological approach to which you have accustomed us."

"Each book has its own style of writing, more or less spontaneous, depending on the subject, the sources, and the anticipated readers."

"This one took as long to produce, even longer, given its relative thinness, than exclusively scientific research."

"I have been trying for some time now, for example in Les versets de l'invincibilité (1995), or in Récits de la province égyptienne (2005), to free the actors from the matrix of scientific discourse."

"This last one seems to have broadened my audience, and I very much hope for a co-publication in Algeria.."

"Although roots is not exactly the right term: as a European from Algeria who became Algerian,"

"I don't have roots but attachments, loyalties, and loyalties."

"It is a very special historical destiny, both received but above all chosen."

"The Aurès is the native country of my mother, whose family arrived in Chélia and then Khenchela, around 1875."

"I think that indeed, the Aurès has been for me since 1973."

"I often went to spend holidays with my grandmother and my father also loved this region very much."