I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

Humanity would never tolerate it

There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference.

My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and - I hope - with some measure of success.

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

Refugee today means somebody who has no home. No homeland. No security. No government to protect him or her. And it is of course one feels not only uprooted, one feels useless. One feels always surrounded by hostile forces. Arousing suspicion.