1. “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
2. “Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.”
3. “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
4. “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
5. “Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.”
6. “Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are differently precisely in order to realize our need of one another.”
7. “We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.”
8. “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
9. “We learn from our history that we don’t learn from history!”
10. “We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.”
11. “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
12. “Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.”
13. “When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray”. We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
14. “If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
15. “There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.”
16. “Religion is like a knife: you can either use to cut bread or stick in someone’s back.”
17. “Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.”
18. “People are not born hating each other and wishing to cause harm. It is a learned condition.”
19. “It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.”
20. “Without forgiveness, there’s no future.”
