If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice.

It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal... People who have lived through a terrible conflict may be hungry and desperate, but they are not stupid. They often have very good ideas about how peace can evolve, and they need to be asked. That includes women. Most especially women.

If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice.

If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers.

We must continue to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph. There is no time to rest until our world achieves wholeness and balance, where all men and women are considered equal and free.

We go into rural communities and all we do, like has been done in this room, is create the space. When these girls sit, you unlock intelligence, you unlock passion, you unlock commitment, you unlock focus, you unlock great leaders.

I don't feel like I've done anything extraordinary but take my little light and shine it in darkness.