Stephen Lewis Quotes

Truthfully, when I see what we can accomplish with money on the ground, it`s the only time in my life I have wished I was Bill Gates.

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

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 United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.

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.

I`m still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.

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.

But I don`t want to leave until I see the breakthrough.

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 behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn`t have a pandemic.

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.

It is always the village women who drive these things.

The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.

I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.

And I went off to Ghana for what was intended to be seven days. I spent what was well over a year in Africa, teaching and travelling.

I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.

I`m in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.