Uprising Quotes

“The changes I describe in this book are not about the triumph of women over men, Western values over Eastern, or one religion over another. They're aimed at solving the world's most intractable problems - poverty, conflict, and violence.”
― Sally Armstrong, Uprising: A New Age is Dawning for Every Mother's Daughter

“...in Afghanistan, the women refer to their illiteracy as blindness. When I asked them what they meant by that, one woman explained: 'I couldn't read, so I couldn't see what was going on.' In fewer than a dozen words, she described a system that men in power have relied on for centuries-keep women uneducated so they won't know what's going on.”
― Sally Armstrong, Uprising: A New Age is Dawning for Every Mother's Daughter