What I’m trying to say is that as we learn to have pride and independence of one’s being, how that contributes from the inside out. So you’re not jus… - Amina J. Mohammed

We learn to have pride and independence of one’s being, how that contributes from the inside out.

You’re not just looking at capacities and skills to connect to the outside world without understanding anything about who you are, and the part that you play in your own ecosystem.

As human beings, what we look to is what they stood for.

The diversity piece has lost its meaning, because we’ve sort of pigeonholed different parts of our society that are different, and will choose to live differently. And what we need to see is healthy respect, and that these are the threads of our human fabric.

I do this because I was part of an education system that did this, although I have to say that we had a broader education. But as years have gone on, that curriculum has become loaded. It has lost its core. And I think people are struggling with who they are, and who they are is such a contradiction to people who want us to join this global family.