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" Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is. "

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" In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place. "

" First I became U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for WHO, and that was in 2005. And then, about a year or so later, I decided to start my foundation. "

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" When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage. "

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" President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding. "

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" Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers. "

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" I'm Christian. Growing up in Ethiopia, it's half-Christian and half-Muslim. You grow up with Muslim kids. I'm very much aware of their religion. "

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" The world needs our mothers. "

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" When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished. "

" We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers. "