Justice

For us to enjoy peace, we need to manage our resources more responsibly, more sustainably, more accountably, more transparently, and we need to share these resources more equitably.

We need to develop cultures of peace, and cultures of peace require that we learn to listen to each other, that we learn to dialogue with each other, that we learn to respect each other.

My commandment is, 'Thou shall not stand idly by.' When you witness an injustice, don't stand idly by. You must intervene. You must interfere.

Human rights, security, and development, taken together, make up the idea of 'larger freedom.' A young man who has HIV, who cannot read or write, and who lives on the brink of starvation is not truly free — even if he can vote to choose his rulers.

Do not think you can look away from the injustice, the suffering, or the lack of true freedom that is the lot of so many people in our world today. Your future depends on their future.

What most of us recognized in South Africa, at the very last moment, was just how much we needed one another. We realized that violent confrontation promised only destruction and a long life of shared misery.

They discovered that being 'tough' was not so much about going to war, but about choosing to avoid it.

It's not a cause, that's an emergency. And when the disease gets out of control because most of the population lives on less than one dollar a day — that's not a cause, that's an emergency.

If you want to serve the age, betray it.

Excellence is the antidote to racism, sexism and nepotism. The harder you work, the luckier you become. What is luck? Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.

Who is my neighbor? My neighbor is all mankind.

Competence has no gender. Brains have no sex nor color.