"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."

"True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute."

"There is something in us that refuses to be regarded as less than human. We are created for freedom"

"A person is a person because s/he recognizes others as persons."

"My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma"

"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."

"We are not responsible for what breaks us, but we can be responsible for what puts us back together again. Naming the hurt is how we begin to repair our broken parts."

"To forgive is not just to be altruistic."

"Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life."

"God is not a Christian."

"God is not a diversion."

"To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo."

"There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in."

"I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't."

"Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity."

"Do a little bit of good wherever you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world"

"Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other."

"A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships."

"It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul."

"We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God."

"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring."

"There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep."

"Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime."

"Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional."