Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.

That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.

Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.

Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.

Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and sister, his or her neighbor. To treat any of these as if he were less than the child of God is to deny the validity of one's spiritual existence.

Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.

Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.