For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.

People united in pursuit of a righteous cause are unstoppable

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

Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama." And when you look at those people it's not the macho, aggressive, successful people, we may envy them, their bank balances and kind of thing, yes and for being successful. But we do not revere them.