If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.

Love is universal. You don't have to tell somebody that loving is better than hating. You don't have to believe in God to know that stealing is bad. All of God's children and their different faiths help to realize the immensity of God. No faith contains the whole truth about God. And certainly Christians don't have a corner on God. All of us belong to God.

There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.

People united in pursuit of a righteous cause are unstoppable

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.