I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa.

All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others

Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.