I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.

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.

I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America.

A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living.

Are we ever going to have a federal tax system that regular people can understand?

You are a being composed of light, love, and intelligence.

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

When we say we have "hit the limits," we are saying that nature is the problem, when in fact the limits we have hit are the limits of destruction and waste, not nature.

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

My fans are my fans for life.