Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

And every human being is precious.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.