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.

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

Blood might be thicker than water, but love was the most powerful magic of all.

...the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.

... the poor always live on debt. At this point, time is the only thing I still have the credibility to borrow.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Computing lets people express their creativity and unlock solutions, and code is computing's universal language. All young people, including girls, deserve to be fluent in the language of the future.

They're flowing out of Cook into the fringes. People move out of Chicago and into suburban Cook County and now they're losing to the outer suburbs.

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

I own nothing of value at all. I spend money on experiences.

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

I am very confident that the Spirit is with us.