Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.