Amanda Lindhout

“I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.”

“Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.”

“With awareness come responsibility and choice.”

“It was a slow understanding that my kidnappers really are a product of their environment.”

“When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.”