Gender Equity

"One must ask, 'Are you doing everything you can?' and I think if the answer is try 'Yes,' then you fell neither hopeless nor despairing." ...

"It started with five women, then 15, then 80, then 150. When it reached these numbers, I realized I had to do something for these women." Timeline: Rwanda ...

"The myth of male superiority can only be demolished with shining examples of female achievement against which nobody could argue intelligently." Timeline: Kenya ...

"We Africans may be impoverished, but we are not poor. ... We can learn things from others, but we also have a lot to offer the world." Timeline: Mozambique ...

"What remains in the end is a deep longing for justice. . .We want you all to remember what happened to our children so that it never happens again." Timeline: ...

"Now I would like to see Guatemala at peace, with indigenous and nonindigenous people living side by side." Timeline: Guatemala 1960 A failed ...

"We turn away so often. ... Each one of us has an individual responsibility to inform ourselves. To care. To respond." Timeline: Human Rights Documents ...

"Everyone has to take responsibility and do whatever they can to avoid a nuclear war [even] contacting the US President." Maj's Story   Born in ...

Teaching Tolerance teamed with Bread and Roses, the cultural arm of local 1199, the National Health & Human Service Employees Union of the AFL-CIO to present the International Women of Hope Project. ...