Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.

Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe.

To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.