When will we learn, when will the people of the world get up and say, Enough is enough. God created us for fellowship. God created us so that we should form the human family, existing together because we were made for one another. We are not made for an exclusive self-sufficiency but for interdependence, and we break the law of our being at our peril.

Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

There are people who go to bed hungry, and that is unconscionable.

Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

The reprisal against the suicide bomber does not bring peace. There is a suicide bomber, a reprisal and then a counter-reprisal. And it just goes on and on.

We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.