In absolutely every way, our lives are transformed by education and basic education in particular. So I would have thought that in any kind of system, to say that the priorities don't include education is a mistake, whether it's [at the] domestic level or at the global level.

It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat.

To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have white men coming over here, is one thing. But to say that the whole of the American prosperity was based on exploiting the indigenous population would be a great mistake.