Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.

I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

The Pope is a man. The Pope needs the input of women, too. And the Pope, too, has a heart that can have a healthy, holy friendship with a woman.

A Christian who is not a revolutionary today isn't a Christian

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.

We must not be afraid of solidarity; rather let us make all we have and are available to God.