Sublime

if we consider that humanitarian aid is not an exact science but an art, then the essence of this art is to create and maintain the conditions of its existence—to generate interest, make itself useful, identify conjunctures that could be propitious for change—and to be capable at all times of modifying the balance of power, creating a hiatus, perma

Today’s world order has struggled to cope with power shifts: China’s rise, the appearance of several medium powers (Iran and North Korea, in particular) that reject important aspects of the order, and the emergence of non-state actors (from drug cartels to terrorist networks) that can pose a serious threat to order within and between states. In sho

Her claim, rather, is that citizens of a democracy are collectively responsible for what their society foreseeably and persistently allows; that they have a special duty toward those it systematically fails;

The people with the most to lose from genuine social change have placed themselves in charge of social change, often with the passive assent of those most in need

mordant

held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an “angry black woman.”

Darren Walker,

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do,” she wrote later, supplying her own emphasis.

public pronouncements about fighting against the establishment.