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

If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.

Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.

Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.

Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.

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

I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to be selective about the things that we remember. If you want to destroy people, destroy their memory, destroy their history.