I mentioned the book "Half the Sky" (www.halftheskymovement.org) yesterday, which is such a great read. On March 4, in honor of International Women's Day 2010, select theaters across Canada will be showing "Half the Sky Live" (see the trailer at care.ca/main/index.php?Half_the_sky_live&PHPSESSID=281de1166457b4a247d43047526c14d2). I just want to share a few of the most important quotes I got from this book:
"Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself." Abraham Lincoln
"You educate a boy, and you're educating an individual. You educate a girl, and you're educating an entire village." African proverb
"Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that, as we've seen, is bigger than the transatlantic slave trade was in the nineteenth." p. 237
"Before long, we will consider sex slavery, honor killings and acid attacks as unfathomable as foot-binding. The question is how long that transformation will take and how many girls will be kidnapped into brothels before it is complete - and whether each of us will be part of that historical movement, or a bystander." p. 250
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