The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.

After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees, its people starved, half a million of its children killed, its infrastructure severely damaged, after making sure that most of its weapons have been destroyed, in an act of cowardice that must surely be unrivalled in history, the 'Allies' / 'Coalition of the Willing' (better known as the Coalition of the Bullied and Bought) - sent in an invading army!

As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.

Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

The revolution cannot be funded. It's not the imagination of trusts and foundations that's going to bring real change.

The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.