Graça Machel

“As I stand here this morning, every minute children are dying in Africa and Asia from malnutrition.”

“We have the knowledge, the technology. [But] even the resources which are necessary to invest in rural areas are not as big as the terrible things people are doing to destroy the environment.”

“We are not doing enough on the pace and level of investment and we're not going to get there”

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

“Tradition has developed a hierarchy in relationship between men and women that leads to discrimination.”

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