The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

Feel empowered. And if you start to do it, if you start to feel your voice heard, you will never go back.

Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

To make progress we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies.

Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

An endless war against terrorism can tend to inflate the terrorists, because being at war is attractive to some angry, unemployed, disaffected youth.

The past is the past. It’s the present we should worry about.

He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.

I want to reach back into my history with a grade-school pink eraser, scrubbing away my decisions like mistakes on a math test. Too bad I drew my mistakes in ink.

Everyone loves a dead artist. It’s the living ones that people can’t tolerate.

It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

...if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say.

How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

I trained myself to be organized.