The invasion and occupation of Iraq is illegal.

I was an ordinary boy at school, a young man. In fact, what did the headmaster once say? "You're constantly challenging those in authority; questioning and challenging those in authority." Which was not really the way I saw it. I felt there were questions that had to be answered, and things that weren't quite right.

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.

It's not that easy to quit. When you look back in the American system it is very rare that people quit on issues of principle.

Yehudi Menuhin was a citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color.