The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.

The problem is there is no such thing as a viable democracy made up of experts, zealots, politicians and spectators.

One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'

You have a mind. And you have other people. Start with those, and change the world.

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.