'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.
Even before I had a daughter, I was passionate about global women's issues, but now that she's here, I'm even more inspired to leave a better world for Evangeline.
All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.
Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes. But the less vulnerable we are because of privilege, the country we're born in, or the security we enjoy, the more vulnerable our souls are to apathy.
But I'm warning you, we're growing up.
The purpose of it all is love.
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.
If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I'd hate myself in the morning.
. . . the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emancipation of the Black people.
It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.