Dream of a world where poverty is history, dream of a world where we don't spend those obscene billions on arms, knowing full well that a tiny fraction of those budgets of death would ensure that children everywhere had clean water to drink, could afford the cheap inoculations against preventable diseases, would have good schools, adequate healthcare and decent homes.

Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.

My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, "I love you. I care for you, enormously." And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

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

We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.

We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.

We pray that Aung San Suu Kyi and her country are now on a path to freedom