I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma.
The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I've reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.
I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.