The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

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

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.

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.