An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion, and there's pride to be taken i….

One has to be realistic. One’s concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned belief. That’s v….

Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that i….

We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content living in a world with so much poverty and ineq….

To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the ot….

If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements….

I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other..

I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a rea….

Poverty is a big barrier if you are at the bottom layer of society, don't know where the next meal is coming from. It is not a big barrier of taking ….

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems..

I think one big thing about the United States is that the American population, they may be excited about Iraq or one thing or another, but basically ….

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute.

After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the main sources of succes….

Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka..

The fact that schools can actually be a major factor in cementing the world is a factor that's worth considering, the fact that we all have a shared ….

It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their….

In absolutely every way, our lives are transformed by education and basic education in particular. So I would have thought that in any kind of system….

Hardly any famine affects more than 5 percent, almost never more than 10 percent, of the population. The largest proportion of a population affected ….

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot..

There's absolutely no reason why at the level of basic schooling that there should be any inequity whatsoever. And [that's] the first direction to go….

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror..