Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.
Interpretation
Social media unites people in the pursuit of equality and rights across distances.
Queen Rania of Jordan emphasizes the vital role of social media in fostering global awareness and activism. It brings people together, reminding them of their shared humanity and equality while providing a platform for collective action on various social issues, regardless of geographical barriers.
In practice
During a conference on digital rights, this quote can be employed to highlight the importance of online platforms in promoting equality.
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.” 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: “As you educate a woman, you educate the family. If you educate the girls, you educate the future.
I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.
I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
Social media is so immediate and in your face that I know many people have been helped and many people who have been traumatised by their entire timeline filled with 'me too.'
I think the problem is, exceptional women will always succeed. But there are plenty of less-exceptional men who succeed. Until we get the less-exceptional women succeeding equally, we do not have full equality.
We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
We need to invest in healthcare, in education, in the sciences. And in so doing, we will tackle one of the most intractable problems we face, which is gross wealth inequality. We can't fight climate change without dealing with inequality in our countries and between our countries.
I wrote 'Milk' for me. I wrote it for the younger version of me that had no clue that there are people who'd ever fought for my rights.
The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.
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