Stephen Lewis Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 16 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Stephen Lewis.
Famous Quotes By Stephen Lewis
What responsibility means is being your own guru. We can only help you find the way. Any healing, any progress, any hope, and any despair is going to come from you. It is your energy that matters. I can't give you my energy, and I wouldn't dream of it. I need it for me. But I can help you find your energy. I'm obligated to help you find it, in any way I can. — Stephen Lewis
Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women. — Stephen Lewis
One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behavior generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic. — Stephen Lewis
But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough. — Stephen Lewis
All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core. — Stephen Lewis
Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable ... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic. — Stephen Lewis
It is always the village women who drive these things. — Stephen Lewis
The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease. — Stephen Lewis
I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher. — Stephen Lewis
I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost. — Stephen Lewis
The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground. — Stephen Lewis
I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level. — Stephen Lewis
I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel. — Stephen Lewis
It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa. — Stephen Lewis
Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men. — Stephen Lewis
I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front. — Stephen Lewis