Ertharin Cousin

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

One of my strengths is my ability to talk and communicate with people.

The people in the United States are some of the most generous people in the world. We saw it in Haiti. We saw it with Katrina. When devastation strikes, American people want to step up.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.