If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ.

Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.

We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.

No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.