There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.' We must remember, my friends, that we have been given a wonderful cause. The cause of freedom! And you and I must be those who will walk with heads held high. We will say, 'We used methods that can stand the harsh scrutiny of history.'