Who can stop climate change? We can. You and you and you, and me. And it is not just that we can stop it, we have a responsibility to do so that began in the genesis of humanity, when God commanded the earliest human inhabitants of the Garden of Eden, "to till it and keep it". To "keep" it; not to abuse it, not to make as much money as possible from it, not to destroy it.

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.

Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

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.

When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.