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“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome.” Booker T. Washington
Amid all the tales of victory, of gold, silver and bronze medals this is a tale of a true Olympic winner. Samia came from a country facing horrendous turmoil. No, she didn’t go home to Somalia with an Olympic medal in her event. Yet she felt just as successful as if she’d had. Now this is the true Olympic spirit that sometimes gets lost in the excitement of “Going for the Gold”.
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” Malcolm Forbes
From 1936 to 1955 the black children in tiny St. Gabriel, Louisiana had one room to go to for an education. They had no free lunches, no gadgets and very little help from the state. With the help of one remarkable woman they did more than managed to get by. Sometimes we forget how blessed we are today. We gripe and grumble about little things. Just think of what this teacher, the students and the parents did to make this school a place of learning in spite of what we today would call impossible conditions. Awesome! With all our advantages today we’ve come such a long way.
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. Gail Sheehy
Oprah.com showcases women who are changing the world
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. Bob Dylan
How would you save someone from slavery? Here is the story of how one woman took action in a way that saved the present and the future of the girls she saved. With piglets!
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. Aristotle
Left To Tell is the story of how a group of women survived the most horrible event, the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Hiding for nintey days in a tiny bathroom took not just a will to survive, but courage to trust the man whose house they hid in. 
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