#iv

When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action. ↗

— Manal al-Sharif

#afraid #break #car #drive #guts

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now. ↗

— Manal al-Sharif

#believe #change #day #different #i

Women want to drive and they are taking actual steps towards that. ↗

— Manal al-Sharif

#drive #steps #taking #towards #want

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#dreams #function #give #great #our

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#believe #events #facts #historians #historical

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#ages #books #civilization #great #harvest

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#assumptions #choice #dictated #driven #economy

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#challenge #cultivation #decisively #democracy #direction

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#any #country #directive #exert #general

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#behind #imperialism #imperialistic #individual #just