We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite.

If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.

No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it

I would hope that wherever I was I would be me. I have been influenced by some wonderful people who showed me that there is an integral relationship between faith and life at home. Evil is evil, repression is repression anywhere. And if it is not consistent with what one believes is God's will, then I would hope that one would be able to witness it, and there are wonderful people who do so in very great risks to themselves.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

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.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.