The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of minimum resources to address any of the public health crises that Africa faces.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.

My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few.

Tax the rich. End the wars. Break the power of lobbies in Washington. These are the demands of Occupy Wall Street. They are very important. The US corporations dominate Washington. The big oil companies, Wall Street banks and the military-industrial complex - they rule this country and their influence and power has to be broken.