You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.

I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come to terms with the dark corners of their own soul, to come to terms with the undecided, their own sense of self, and maybe help develop a capacity to love - to love wisdom, love justice.

Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.

We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

Martin Luther King was a victim of surveillance, and had great solidarity with victims of surveillance.

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)