It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.