I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.
The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.
The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.
If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue.
If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died, then people tend not to be receptive. But once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.
So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen. This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.
Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.
What is in the well of the heart will come up through the bucket of the mouth.
To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.
The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism. . . we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.