We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laughter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God's world.

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.

Each one of us is not a divine afterthought.