Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.

God hopes that we are going to love God back.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite.