Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.

You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'

Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.