It was spine tingling, actually, when you saw how people kept saying, "Release Nelson Mandela," and meaning really, "Release all of our political prisoners."

Religious people should be very active if they believe that the world belongs to God, and politics is a very important part of the world, then they must participate in political affairs because they are alive. And if they don't act neither as the leaven or the salt or the light, then things can go horribly badly wrong.

I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.

If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.

Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.