"Americans are once again looking outward"

-- Dan Rather

“If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.”
“Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear.”
“In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.”
“The real business of life is trying to understand each other.”

Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria
“I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.”
“In America there's a saying that children should be seen and not heard, .. In Cambodia, children should not be seen nor heard because you would not survive.”
“Polak, a psychiatrist, has applied a behavioral and anthropological approach to alleviating poverty, developed by studying people in their natural surroundings. He argues that there are three mythic solutions to poverty eradication: donations, national economic growth, and big businesses. Instead, he advocates helping the poor earn money through their own efforts of developing low-cost tools that are effective and profitable.”
“One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.”

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