Quotes about "Resilience & Adversity"

Civil society space provides the oxygen for citizens to participate and meaningfully hold their governments and the private sector to account - and ensure that decisions are made in the interest of the majority and not the few. Without it, citizens have limited space to dissent and challenge the elites. ”

Our economic system has enabled companies and individuals to use their power and influence to capture and retain an ever-increasing share of the benefits of economic growth while the benefits for the poorest in society have shrunk. ”

Far too many governments are cutting back on their investment in human development. ”

Billions of people are being left behind by economic growth. ”

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice. ”

It was a challenge to my teammates to help me. ”

When I got the appetite for more and more theatre, all I could think of was trying to get back to New York. ”

ADCOLOR is an incredible organization that not only empowers people from all backgrounds to rise up but also to give back. ”

When I was first starting out in the industry in the early '90s, gay love stories were relegated to limited-release films that were hidden deep in the back of Blockbuster video stores. ”

It's almost a joke how good I am at charades. Not to pat my own back, but I'm literally - I'm kind of unstoppable. ”