Graça Machel Quotes

We have to change our mindsets, our behaviours, our value system.

We are a society where women, and children by the way, are not safe anywhere. Something absolutely and deeply wrong is happening in our society.

What they have taught me and what I take from their lives is this real ability to go beyond yourself and to dedicate your life to the common good, to create spaces and opportunities for freedom for all.

The developed world needs to feel that these huge levels of poverty (are) a threat to their own security. When their interests are at risk, money can be found.

Africa’s socio-economic transformation will only be realized once we aggressively address gender-specific challenges, prioritize gender equality and women’s participation, and firmly entrench women in leadership positions at all levels in society.

When you educate a girl, you educate a nation.

Education, particularly for girls, is a catalyst for reducing child and maternal deaths and lifting people out of poverty.

Tradition has developed into practices which overtime have become beliefs which in essence they put women in a position of inferiority.

The problem is not the consequences of what’s happening, it’s the root causes of why and how we got where we are as a society.”

A pandemic within a pandemic has been exposed and we are confronted with the horrific reality that millions of women and children — in every country — are fighting for their survival, not just from COVID-19 but from the brutalities of abusers in the prisons of their homes.

We must reinvent our relationships and re-engineer the way we relate in our families, in our schools, in our workplaces with the spirit of ubuntu that Archbishop Tutu taught us and exudes with every fibre of his being.

To ensure that we achieve the goals for our development by 2063 we need to fully invest in and optimize of the continent’s other half which for too long has been neglected: the African female.

The role tradition has played in the relationship in the family between men and women has been detrimental to women.

African women need to be in the driving seat of national discourse,women need to be at the centre of our economies,they must also pro-actively seek to correct the status quo.

We are proving that we can come together as a united human family to holistically tackle COVID-19, let us apply an equally comprehensive, vigorous, and unrelenting focus to eradicating gender-based violence as well.