"Anyone who knows politics knows that all countries which suffered from foreign debt and were put under structural reform programs were forced to appoint ministers accepted by the international bodies."

"We believe that the freedom to run for the office is for everybody, without restrictions."

"We believe this is not an important issue to discuss now. More important issues to discuss are political developments and the struggle to defend our national sovereignty, because Algeria is targeted more than ever."

"it's right for women to have more liberties."

"We have decided to change the social nature of this movement to be political, and we call for the regime to step down."

"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."

"Always put God first in everything you do and he will bear your burden."

"Education, free and compulsory quality public education and women's rights are the core target of our political project. Without education with equal opportunities for all, the Morocco of tomorrow cannot be built on a solid foundation."

"Who can take care of your needs if not God? Anyone pocketing people’s resources, would be punished."

"Priority to meritocracy; because we have deprived ourselves of many talents who, not being the "sons of", have expatriated elsewhere! And unlike certain politicians who invade TV sets or whose specialty is to distribute good positions and power, we go to the field and give real follow-up to our proposals, attentive to observe, listen and respond to the suffering and deficiencies that persist. In some isolated places, the spectacle is only desolation: dismal roads, unsanitary housing, more than 50 students per class, non-existent transport and security."

"If you hold God, not just going to Church and Mosque, you have everything."

"In Islam there are five pillars, the first is to believe in God, if you don’t have that, then forget about the rest."

"On the contrary, I received support from all sides, and especially in relation to my action and my desire to make things happen. Running again for these elections was essential for me, because I did not want not to disappoint the 30,000 voters who voted for me in 2007."

"We must all recognise God and believe everything that is incomplete will soon be too much."

"Everyone should have it at their fingertips and know where they come in; even market women, philanthropists, everybody."

"Believe in God and to hold on to God in everything that you do in your life."

"Implementing the Act is more important than delaying it"

"Understand the reason why things should be done in the right way.understand that there is fire on the mountain."

"Massive spread of fake news, disinformation, hate speech and digital violence are the most notable issues."

"I always advise people that whatever you are doing in life, leave God to drive that vehicle for you, let him be your captain and pilot. With him, everything will be possible."

"My participation is civic and completely independent of my faith. If I sought to be elected democratically, it was first and foremost to escape the opprobrium of those I rub shoulders with every day: all the forgotten and oppressed people of Morocco from below. Too bad for my detractors who confuse my political convictions as a committed woman with my community identity."

"Because life is the inherent and absolute right on which other rights are based."

"When I sponsor a bill, I do it in hopes that I will change our country for the better."

"And even if the bill is not successful, I hope it will spark a conversation that will enable something to change or the introduction of something better."

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

"The major challenges are the lack of understanding from the majority of the constituents about the role of the legislature and also the need to have institutional memory and capacity building in the legislature."

"Ms. Bouayach quoted Nelson Mandela’s belief that "education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world. She underlined that this idea extends beyond achieving sustainable development, fighting climate change, promoting equality and human rights or building a better future. It plays a crucial role in maintaining peace and preventing atrocities and violations."

"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"

"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?"

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

"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."

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

"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."

"The African woman must arm herself to defend her rights when they are flouted."

"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?"

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

"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."

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

"issues arise with unprecedented and dangerous consequences and practices"

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

"I don't believe there's any secrecy involved. The president's office clearly stated that he was in Paris for medical treatment and that his condition is not serious. His personal doctor has also provided detailed information about his illness, which is quite different from the situation in 2005 when the president was ill and sent to Val de Grace Hospital in Paris without much disclosure. This transparency is important to dispel any rumors."

"Well, National Mandate Group is all over Oyo State campaigning, canvassing for Atiku and for the PDP. So yeah, we are very busy. We are making progress."

"Poetry, of course, is special, unique. It is a metamorphosis of language that transforms both reader and poet, an exquisite and melancholy exercise. Sometimes, in difficult moments, I take down a text by the Haitian writer René Philoctète or the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and my darkness fills with light. For me that’s what poetry is. And fiction has the power to shed new light on life, on people, on relations between human beings, on our relations with ourselves."

"While writing Rosalie l’infâme, I rediscovered the history of the revolution, I learned about the struggles of the enslaved women, men and children in their daily lives; their struggles to maintain their dignity. And I truly believe that if the slaves had not fought for their dignity, if they had not managed to maintain some dignity amid the most inhuman system, the Haitian revolution would not have been possible. While doing my research for writing Rosalie, I could empathize with them because finally I saw them as human beings and not as an anonymous mass of victims of slavery."

"I think that we often tend not to face the pages of our history that upset us. I would have thought that there would be many more texts, many more stories around the Duvalier dictatorship. Generations of men and women were marked by this period. But it’s the same story as for slavery: there is shame in speaking of it, like a wound that one is scared to touch."

"This image of the condemned books remains for me one of the strongest images of the repression, this repression of knowledge and of creative freedom. Isn’t that one of the strongest armies used by dictators everywhere?"

"I feed off of my observations, above all. Sometimes it just takes a remark for an idea for a story or a character to arise. Or unconsciously I store things away and the next time I sit down to write, they come back to me. Obviously writing is a digestion of our experiences. Certain characters of mine draw on the image I have of people in my life...But I think that what makes a text interesting is its capacity to go beyond one’s own experiences, to succeed in sharing a different world. This requires a lot of sensitivity, and also self-knowledge. Writing allows me to better understand the world in which I developed. If I really want to create meaning, I must be honest with myself, and not present a simplistic version of things. Most of the time this means setting aside my own experiences, transcending them."

"I like this back and forth between the past and the present, between memory and reality."

"One of the first things I was told in Haiti is that all families have at least one member in the army, at least one member in the Macoutes, and at least one member killed by the army or the Macoutes. Memory at Bay is a distressingly beautiful evocation of this eerie symbiosis between oppressor and victim, by one of the best writers in the Caribbean basin today. As one of Évelyne Trouillot's characters says to another, "My only inheritance from you was your torment.""