Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.