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

All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others

It's a fantastic thing, a very simple idea. Irrespective of your politics, of your culture, of your race, of your whatever, hierdie ding doen ons saam...Here is one thing that can unite us irrespective of all of the things that are trying to tear us apart.

Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.

One of the things that has always surprised me is why Americans are so patient. Because they have seen not just that freedom has come, what they have seen is that there are some who used to be poor who are very rich, stinking rich some of them.

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

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.