No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it
Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.
The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already overfull moral agenda. It is vital, however, that these instances of injustice not be overlooked.
The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.
Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.
You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.
We have an incredible capacity for the worst possible evil, all of us, it was that we also have this incredible capacity for good. And that is why we are all of us appalled when something bad happens. Because if the bad was the norm, we would just shrug our shoulders and say "well tough luck, this is how the cookie crumbles" kind of thing but none of us does that.
People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful.
Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity
Even the worst dictator, there is not a single one of them who would say "Oh yes, I violate human rights." They all claim "oh no, we respect human rights" even when they are doing the most egregious things.
I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
I hope that you will be amongst those young people who say we worked to change the world. We worked to make the world a more gentle, a more compassionate, a more caring world.
A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.
There are very good Christians who are compassionate and caring. And there are very bad Christians. You can say that about Islam, about Hinduism, about any faith. That is why I was saying that it was not the faith per se but the adherent. People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.
As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.
Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.
We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
Without forgiveness, there's no future.
I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I have also seen incredible forgiveness and compassion. Yes, each of us has the capacity for great evil. But for every act of evil there are a dozen acts of goodness in our world that go unnoticed. It is only because we believe that people should be good that we despair when they are not. Indeed, if people condoned the evil, we would be justified in losing hope. But most of the world does not. We know that we are meant for better.
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.
"We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons."
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