Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
Interpretation
Role models and supportive communities can empower girls to achieve their potential.
In this quote, Queen Rania emphasizes the importance of not just inspiring girls through role models and motivational campaigns, but also through active support and friendship. She suggests that real change requires personal connections and an ongoing commitment to uplift and empower girls across the globe, highlighting that collective efforts are necessary for true progress.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech at a women's empowerment event to encourage community support.
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
If you educate a boy, you educate a person, but if you educate a girl, you educate a family and benefit an entire community.β An entire community - now that is really interesting! Then I found the quote changed a little more on the Kingdom of Jordan website by her Royal Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan during her interview with Oprah Winfrey. Queen Rania relates the quote in these words: βAs you educate a woman, you educate the family. If you educate the girls, you educate the future.
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