There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.
Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.
Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.
Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.
War is not a computer-generated missile striking a digital map. War is the color of earth as it explodes in our faces, the sound of child pleading, the smell of smoke and fear. Women survivors of war are not the single image portrayed on the television screen, but the glue that holds families and countries together. Perhaps by understanding women, and the other side of war. . . we will have more humility in our discussions of wars. . . perhaps it is time to listen to womens side of history.
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.
Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.
The place that I love most is the stillness. It's not that the stillness is lost when I talk or when I teach because the words arise out of the stillness. But when people leave me, there is only the stillness left. And I love that so much.
If you're lonely, bored, or unhappy, remember you are mad young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.