We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.
To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.
To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.
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.
The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.