I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.

There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.