Religious people should be very active if they believe that the world belongs to God, and politics is a very important part of the world, then they must participate in political affairs because they are alive. And if they don't act neither as the leaven or the salt or the light, then things can go horribly badly wrong.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

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

When I talk of forgiveness I mean the belief that you can come out the other side ... a better person than the one being consumed by anger and hatred. Remaining in that state locks you in a state of victimhood, making you almost dependent on the perpetrator. If you can find it in yourself to forgive then you are no longer chained to the perpetrator. You can move on.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.