Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian politician Stephen Lewis.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Stephen Henry Lewis is a Canadian politician, public speaker, broadcaster, and diplomat. He was the leader of the social democratic Ontario New Democratic Party for most of the 1970s.
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.
It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.
I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.
I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.
I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.
All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.
Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.
The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.
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.
It is always the village women who drive these things.
I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.
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.
The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.
But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.