As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.

Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack.

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

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