As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.

As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.

We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.

Without forgiveness, there is no future.