A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person…

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I…

— Mother Teresa

“Get out of bed and feed me already, person!”

— Rachel Cohn David Levithan

Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.

— Amanda Lindhout

Going into Somalia, I didn't anticipate how many people's lives would be affected by it. In hindsight, I certainly wish I had taken more…

— Amanda Lindhout

Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.

— Amanda Lindhout

Accompanied by an Australian photographer named Nigel Brennan, I'd gone to Somalia to work as a freelance journalist, on a trip that was meant…

— Amanda Lindhout

The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women’s freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that’s what…

— Amanda Lindhout

What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.

— Amanda Lindhout

I made a vow to myself while I was a hostage that if I were lucky enough to live and to get out of…

— Amanda Lindhout

Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.

— Amanda Lindhout

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

— Amanda Lindhout

“After almost seven months in Baghdad, I set my sights on Somalia. The reasons to do it seemed straightforward. Somalia was a mess. There…

— Amanda Lindhout

Can't believe some of the things I did. The idea of going to Somalia alone, not having a place to stay or security. I…

— Anderson Cooper

In our Revolution we believe that we have broken the chain of a consumer economy based on imports, and we are free to decide…

— Siad Barre

I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali