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Greg Mortenson Quotes about Fighting

If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.

Greg Mortenson

Girl, Fighting, Hygiene

"Three Cups of Tea". Book by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, 2007.

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Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.

Greg Mortenson

Girl, Home, Fighting

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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In tribal society, the most important thing to do when civilians are killed in a skirmish is to acknowledge the deaths, and provide compensation. When tribal clans fight, the victor is required to take care of the vanquished widows and orphans, which puts a limitation on bloodshed, and tempers warring groups to try and negotiate a compromise.

Greg Mortenson

Fighting, Trying, Important

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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You have to attack the source of your enemy’s strength. In America’s case, that’s not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. The only way to defeat it is to build relationships with those people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever.

Greg Mortenson

Ignorance, Fighting, America

Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (2006). “Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time”, p.377, Penguin

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I say if you fight terrorism, it's based in fear, but if you promote peace, it's based on hope.

Greg Mortenson

Fighting, Terrorism, Ifs

"Humanitarian Greg Mortenson". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. February 11, 2009.

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