I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white. I will punish you because you are a woman; you should have been a man. I punish you because you are homosexual; you ought to have been heterosexual. I can't, I can't for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things.

People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.