Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.

We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people.

I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.