One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

I went back to the women and said, 'Tell me exactly what you want us to do.' And they said, 'Don't do anything for us, do somethingfor our children'.

In India, a "bride burning"-- to punish a woman for inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry-- takes place approximately once every two hours, but rarely constitute news.

Imagine the outcry if the Pakistani or Indian governments were burning women alive at those rates. Yet when the government is not directly involved people shrug.

But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first.

Often we blame a region's religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, that acknowledged, it's also true that . . . it is often cited by the oppressors.

Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.

Children who are resilient often have an appearance of a Teflon coating: nothing seems to faze these children.

If his relative success hadn't made him happy, it had, on average, made him less unhappy.

Be therefore not anxious about tomorrow for tomorrow will be anxious for the things of itself.

I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful.

The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it.

If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?

The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

If we start without confidence, we have already lost half the battle and we bury our talents.

there are the non-believers, make believers and true believers!