People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

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

If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!

People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.

Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humaneness, gentleness, hospitality, putting yourself out on behalf of others, being vulnerable. It embraces compassion and toughness. It recognizes that my humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.