Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we Kurds considered so unworthy, so disposable? I longed to stand at the top of the mountain and shout out, Where are you, world? Where are you ?

Le montant des dépenses mondiales de publicité et de sponsoring approchait 600 milliards de dollars en 2008, soit quatre à cinq fois ce que permettrait de régler, sur le plan financier, les problèmes les plus urgents des pays en développement (les « objectifs du millénaire » des Nations Unies). (p.70)

How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.

Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)

I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.