When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.

Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be.