Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

You’re only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that’s the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won’t but you can’t define yourself by their opinions.

Each time I came crashing down into the ocean porpoiselike, water hit my face like the slap of a jilted lover.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life not the top.

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.

To a boiling pot flies come not.

If we know God is for us, then it shouldn't matter how we feel, or what other people think of us.

I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.

You tend to understand yourself a little better after each role you play. There’s somewhat of a self-discovery.

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.