Hafsat Abiola quotes

“Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contibute the best that they have and all that they are.”
-- Hafsat Abiola

Source : "Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images". Book edited by Michael Collopy and Jason Gardner, 2000.

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“Guard your light and protect it. Move it forward into the world and be fully confident that if we connect light to light to light, and join the lights together of the one billion young people in our world today, we will be enough to set our whole planet aglow.”
-- Hafsat Abiola

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“We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can imagine.”
-- Hafsat Abiola

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“In Nigeria, the hopes of millions have been pinned on me. Everything I do is under the spotlight. If they want to sell papers, they put me on the cover. If they want to gain popular support in an election, they ask for my endorsement. Where does someone like me go when we need a safe place to be and learn? To renew, deepen the foundation of our work, and sharpen our focus? To share experiences, lessons and build relationships with others that can advance our thinking, approach and capacity? We go to the YES! Jam, which gives us all that and so much more.”
-- Hafsat Abiola

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“Any society that is silencing its women has no future.”
-- Hafsat Abiola

“It isn't useful to curse the darkness; instead light your candle and let your light shine.”
-- Hafsat Abiola

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“Take your light and take your love into the world as the only weapons that we need to make this world truly glorious, truly beautiful, and astonish all of life.”
-- Hafsat Abiola

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“The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.”

“People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.”

“Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.”

“The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.”

Source : "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 508), 1977.

“One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.”

“Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.”

“Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

“Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.”

“While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.”

“I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.”

Source : "A galaxy faraway, so close: Adam Driver on 'Star Wars: Episode VII'" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. August 15, 2014.