Brenau University

"I say to you today that you are going to have to look beyond our shores and engage in significant issues throughout the world. If you leave here today and become isolationists and do not pay attention to this world, first of all, it is going to be a tragedy for this great country. The second issue is that it will be a tragedy for you because you will not experience the richness and the joy of being in company of those who are different from us, or the different language or the richness of culture they bring to us.

“One of World Vision´s goals is to make education available to every female child on the planet. It is a statistical certainty that increasing education among women in some regions has reduced susceptibility to HIV infection, decreased infant mortality rates and brought peace and stability to communities. I agree with the president of the World Bank … that if we educate every girl in the world ... we will have no need for weapons anymore.

“Every girl has the right of education in this world. Every girl should have the right to determine when she should get married. No girl should be forced to be married at 12 or 14 years of age. And every girl and boy in this world should have freedom of education, freedom of determination of their future. That is a basic right, and all of us in this country need to stand up for that.”