To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.
Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the family. Whether we oppress or liberate our children in our relationships with them will determine whether they grow up to oppress and be oppressed or to liberate and be liberated.
True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.
God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.
Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.
The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
The world’s forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children’s future.
If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
My father always used to say, “Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.”