Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I'm a saint.".

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more pe….

With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are ….

In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a hero to the world..

I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In apartheid South Africa he was public enemy num….

Nelson Mandela also spoke about how, as a human being, he's made mistakes..

I've come across a lot of people in my life who talk about poverty and talk about the poor, but you rarely have a sense that it matters to them to th….

Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult to ….

Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest.".

My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders are denying th….

The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's rig….

The Social License is fundamentally about accountability to people and not just powerful interests. John Morrison’s book reminds all organizations – ….

The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss around them and so….

Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs..

A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'.

Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children..

You know how they say, 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?' What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic..

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter..

Nelson Mandela was just a human being, a person like other people, and everyone relaxed. Within a minute, that sort of thing about the leader and the….

I think even though he [Nelson Mandela] was feted and praised as he was, he always was at pains to say, I'm a human being..

Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'.