My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

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

I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white. I will punish you because you are a woman; you should have been a man. I punish you because you are homosexual; you ought to have been heterosexual. I can't, I can't for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things.

An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.

You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.

It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.

I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.'" Almost all of the passion that we have has come from the inspiration that we have got from the Jewish Scriptures.