During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.