A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewable energy)

Some of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident.

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.