For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.