Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.

God loved me before I actually was.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

I have a lot of time for young people.

People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.

To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.