Hawa Abdi quotes

“Women can build stability. We can make peace.”
-- Hawa Abdi

#Stability Quotes #Making Peace Quotes

“When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.”
-- Hawa Abdi

Source : "Part 2: “Keeping Hope Alive” in Somalia with Hawa Abdi and Daughter Deqo Mohamed". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 16, 2013.

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Pain Quotes

“We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.”
-- Hawa Abdi

Source : "Hawa Abdi" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2011.

#Community Quotes #Leader Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.”
-- Hawa Abdi

Source : "The doctor undaunted by Somalia's insurgents" by Laila Ali, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2011.

#Self Quotes #Long Quotes #Somalia Quotes

“At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young.”
-- Hawa Abdi

Source : "Somali doctor: 'They are taking my land so I can't welcome the poor'" by Clar Ni Chonghaile, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2012.

#Dream Quotes #Night Quotes #Young Quotes

“I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.”
-- Hawa Abdi

#Government Quotes #Tangible Quotes #Helping Quotes

“How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?”

“Stability means respecting precedents.”

“We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account”

Source : Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

“I guess I crave stability.”

“I love TV. I love the stability of it.”

“I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.”

“Flexibility is the key to stability.”

“Although wrongs have been done me I live in hope. ... Now we are together again to make peace.”

“Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.”

Source : Norman Angell, Sir Norman Angell (1939). “The great illusion--now”

“You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.”