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

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

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.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

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

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

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

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

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

Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!

Don't quench the courageous spirit you begun with

I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

What’s the secret to success? It’s no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed.

Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.

True consecration to Christ simplifies life, for it leaves the management to Him.

I don't like sleeping in a bed.

The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely.

Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.