"Our country is great and we are full of great wealth! We believe in your skills, your qualities and your dedication. Prosperity will transform our common nation and we will all have better days!"

"I am very proud to support the launch of the Claudine Talon Foundation. The foundation’s emphasis on inclusion and solidarity is the keystone of successful health and development efforts. The foundation will be a driving force in creating a better future for women and children in Benin. Claudine Talon has a burning desire to give to others."

"Today, Zimbabweans celebrate Heroes Day, marked by the Second Republic introducing a new initiative to honor civilians and civil servants for their heroic contributions to the advancement of Zimbabwe."

"Residents in informal settlements are faced with reduced access to some of the most basic social amenities like a regulated waste management system. Therefore, the city is working to improve its waste management system through a programme to start the separation of waste at source and put up a compost plant. Apart from that we strive to give them access to financial inclusion, through a recognised national identification system which will also enable them to be enrolled onto the National Health Insurance Scheme as well provide an infant care facility for the children."

"We believe we can secure the Akan vote"

"That's the opinion of the Attorney-General. He's clearly wrong, but that's his opinion and he his entitled to it. I am not in his position"

"We know how to appeal to them"

"I would do so many things differently if I were in his position now. Not only about this. About everything...the interpretation of the law is fundamental, and you know, you don't sit there as Attorney-General, and you spout out the law yourself"

"Today in Benin, for every 100 000 babies born, 335 women die giving birth. This is an example of the challenges we face. Women must be empowered to manage their own reproductive health and I am convinced that together we can improve the health of women and children in Benin."

"I occupy my thoughts with what I can do to better the lot of my constituents, they voted for me because they have confidence in me to solve their problems not to be trading words."

"The party has always been youth-centric"

"I will not have responded publicly to the allegations if they were not made on radio because the media battle will further inflame passions. But in all these I have absolute confidence in the Police to get to the bottom of it and bring the perpetrators to book."

"The Islamist movement was and still is a red herring that deviates completely from the real struggle. Its ongoing violence, most recently felt by a string of bombs in Cairo and in the Sinai, also used justify repression."

"A home that encourages you to read and believes in the importance of freedom of choice is an enlightened home that helps you be creative and influential. My husband and I have done the same with our beloved daughters."

"I soften when she sees my three grandchildren. I consider them my retirement gratuity; they are the true source of happiness in my life."

"Many people think that a strong woman is one who makes her own decisions alone, but that is not the case with me. My family is the source of my pride and power."

"There’s really no comparison to the Sadat era, in many ways it’s worse but in ways it’s also better. When we were imprisoned for our activism in the 70s, no one knew about it. There was no social media of course and no state media would cover such things."

"I want to make sure that all the legislation passed by the parliament treats women and men equally."

"I was honoured by this selection for years of hard work, but we should not forget the team behind this effort, my colleagues on the professional level, and my beloved family on the personal level."

"There is now a shift in tactics, since outright street protest have become dangerous and, she says, “almost suicidal.” There’s been a renewed emphasis on media exposure and grass roots activities like regular “I am an Egyptian citizen” events, where young people visit slums and villages and speak about human rights issues while painting walls, picking up garbage or fixing train signals."

"The key word for everything I have achieved throughout my life is family."

"Our goal is to have HIV-competent churches and theological institutions."

"Looking back I see that my ministry has been shaped by the dynamics of HIV, especially in the African context, As an African it has a personal angle to it. I stopped counting the number of people in the extended family we have lost."

"Many of the issues we are addressing today, the key drivers of HIV such as violence, the cultural aspects, the misinterpretation of scriptures have all been part of the discussions of African women theologians."

"It was very obvious that the most affected on the continent were women, both as care providers and because we are on the receiving end, The majority of those who are HIV-positive are women. So we couldn’t ignore asking why there is a gender imbalance."

"We have gone through stages. When we started, it was the issue of gender, We have come a long way. I think it is accepted that this is an issue we must deal with … Now homosexuality has become part of the issues, and this is not an area we can avoid."

"That’s what happens when a political force uses violence - like the Brotherhood. They did it in a way that marginalised the democratic opposition movements - they were against democracy and against the state. Sadat supported them as a foil to democratic opposition."

"“We have chosen to touch the cloak of Jesus and to hear his voice calling us to arise! We have chosen to participate fully in God’s mission and to name the missing links in African theology, mission, and life”."

"There are many challenges one faces in the course of the job, but you have to be resilient and resolute in your conviction."

"When a girl reaches school age, will her family be able to afford to send her to school—and keep her there? Or will they keep her home to do chores, while her brothers learn?"

"There cannot be an alternative to access to education or knowledge."

"I like to think of stairs, if I may. Stairs because we have climbed a few steps, but a lot more steps remain to be climbed on the way up to the top."

"Getting girls into a classroom is not enough in itself; girls have to be able to stay in school and get proper education once enrolled"

"But when solidarity collapses there is a gap that even threatens humanity as a whole."

"Let’s humanise the world, because the world is completely dehumanised."

"And when the now young lady is thinking of entering the workforce, will she have access to skills training—including digital skills? Or science, technology, engineering and math-based skills? Or will she be left out of these opportunities because of her gender?"

"It is a very good thing that parents have recognized that both boys and girls deserve the same chance at formal education."

"If we look at life in society there are several aspects that require us to be human, both in access to education, to land, and administrative de-bureaucratization, which prevents people from having access to their rights and from these being fulfilled."

"Solidarity has disappeared between people, so we need to return to models of society with more solidarity and from there with more humanism, because there can be no solidarity without humanism."

"We thought that it was necessary to have a way of doing politics that looked at the objective that is the reconstruction of the dignity of the human being."

"The human being also only got where we are today through solidarity between human beings, otherwise we would not have resisted the interventions even of nature itself."

"I have always said that the independence of justice is a process, it cannot be decreed by a decision, a speech or an injunction."

"I say that humanity is a whole, and if we all unite and are connected to develop, propagate and strengthen humanist principles, humanity will win."

"It is up to the Togolese woman, in particular and African in general, to lead the fight for the respect of her rights and for her emancipation."

"For justice to be independent, we need to change a lot of things."

"The history of the women's movement in the West has unfolded completely differently from here."

"Everyone knows that Zoubida Assoul respects the national flag which is part of the symbols of national sovereignty."

"if all that matters are the rights of women -- you can call me a feminist if you like."

"It is a cabal led by individuals that I cannot identify because they speak under pseudonyms and fake profiles."

"Our religion is much more capable of solving social problems than Western models that only benefit the elite."