The people who are getting rich can't imagine that the world is not a better place.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

Once you've seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something.

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened

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

There was a time when the women of Afghanistan - at least in Kabul - were out there. They were allowed to study, they were doctors and surgeons, walking free, wearing what they wanted. That was when it was under Soviet occupation. Then the United States starts funding the mujahideen. Reagan called them Afghanistan's "founding fathers." It reincarnates the idea of "jehad," virtually creates the Taliban.