When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.

Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.

Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.

The best change that comes to the world is when all parties are seeing each other as equal, and all parties have the opportunity to be transformed. That really goes back to the idea of dignity.

Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.

There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid.

There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.