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Thread: Malala at the UN
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Penny S
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Live feed now. This is the speech of a brilliant woman. It deserves to go down with speeches of Martin Luther King, with Mandela, with Gandhi. She is stunning.
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Honest Ron Bacardi
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I agree Penny S. She is a truly extraordinary and inspiring young woman.
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Kaplan Corday
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Footage of lessons in the crowded class-rooms of girls' schools in places such as Afghanistan and Pakistan are amongst the most moving images on the news these days.
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argona
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Courage and grace... takes your breath away. As for the rest of us stumbling, compromised humanity, we need to act. Seriously, what do we do?
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Golden Key
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Molala is awesome! I do still worry about her safety.
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As to what we can do, small things can help:
-- Good Search is an expanded click-to-donate site. You pick a cause/charity from their lonnnng list (100,000+!), then just use the site. Donations are made for using their search engine, shopping through their portal, etc. I have Good Search set as my default search engine. Easy way to do some good, without even having to think about it.
-- The Hunger Site family of sites lets you help a variety of causes, via click-to-donate and shopping.
-- Care2 has click-to-donate, e-cards-to-donate, petitions, etc.
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Penny S
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I did have a worrying thought, about the time when she cited Martin Luther King and Gandhi.
Apparently a lot of internet postings in Pakistan, following her speech, were along the lines of her being unIslamic, and descending to identifying her as a prostitute.
Unfortunately, there are those who won't see that if she is killed now, she will become even more powerful in the global mind.
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Golden Key
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They've been calling her those things for a long time, AIUI.
And yes, once you martyr someone, you're stuck with them forever. You can't kill them twice.
Hopefully, people will get that through their heads.
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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luvanddaisies
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Her parents must be so ridiculously inexpressibly proud of her - she's just had her sixteenth birthday, and yet she puts most adults to shame with her articulacy, her bravery and the way she's worked for the cause of girls' education. Incredible girl. I hope she has good friends her own age to spend time with, and a that a strong team of people have been assembled around her, long-term, for her protection. It seems there are a lot of people frightened of a young educated girl and willing to do anything to damage her. I hope she gets time to continue her own education, to go to university in a couple of years and so on, while she campaigns. One of the world's inspiring people.
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Adeodatus
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The word "awesome" is one of the most grossly overused words in the English language.
This was truly awesome.
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Timothy the Obscure
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Is it too soon to be talking about her Nobel Peace Prize?
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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
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balaam
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Penny S
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Saw in the paper that she had already been nominated last year.
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Jigsaw
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So sad that apparently it was not broadcast in Pakistan.
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