The most powerful tool to lift families out of extreme poverty is to grant micro-loans to women. - Gabriele Renate Homey

If Western firms pay developing countries' suppliers' starvation wages in order to feed the West's ever increasing consumer demand, can we call that ‘partnership’?

This "Clash of Civilizations" has led to a "Clash of Religions", leading in turn to war, terror and extreme poverty.

Charity begins in your own family. "Charitable spirits” mustn’t forget to keep their own slates clean, to address problems and inequities within their own four walls with decency and fairness before trying to make the world a better place. People who aren’t willing to do that are not sincere in their claim to benevolence.