We have lived through fear all our lives, and when you have gone through a whole lot of fear, sometimes all you can do is resist the fear, and resistance comes in the form of courage.

Don't wait for a Gandhi, don't wait for a King, don't wait for a Mandela. You are your own Mandela, you are your own Gandhi, you are your own King.

Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.

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

You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire.

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

Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action.