Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.

Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.

God would come down and lead us out of bondage. And God led us out of bondage.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.

When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.

We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future

To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.

The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.

I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.

The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

Some of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident.

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success.

When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.

It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.

The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?"

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.

One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.

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