If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Without forgiveness, there's no future.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
