I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.

I think it's good that you test the reality that surrounds you in your neighbourhood with the reality as it is in other parts of the world; you come up with a better judgment. I'm not meaning that literally you can only do that and not go to school at all but in terms of enrichment of a personality I think it's a fabulous thing.

I'm sometimes impatient with young people who demonstrate at my meetings and who don't want an argument, but who just want to go on television as having been there and made a fuss. This doesn't mean I don't believe in participatory democracy.

I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.

Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.