We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians.

If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice at a risk. Then that builds up your stock of credibility so that, when you speak on another occasion about a different thing, people will pay attention.

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

There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.