Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.

If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.

We need other human beings in order to be human.

You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.

God is not a diversion.