Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humaneness, gentleness, hospitality, putting yourself out on behalf of others, being vulnerable. It embraces compassion and toughness. It recognizes that my humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human."

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by instances of that kind.

Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

I say somewhat facetiously, "I'm so glad I'm not God." Can you imagine being God and looking at Syria and saying: "These are my children. Look at what they're doing to each other."