I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.

For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.

For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.