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.

The anti-globalization movement is one of the biggest globalized events of the contemporary world, people coming from everywhere, —Australia, Indonesia, Britain, India, Poland, Germany, South Africa—to demonstrate in Seattle or Quebec. What could be more global than that?

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

There's absolutely no reason why at the level of basic schooling that there should be any inequity whatsoever. And [that's] the first direction to go, [but] that need not prevent you from doing all the other equalities that you want.