The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.

We can only be human together.

It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.

I am deeply moved by the warmth and courage of the Canadian people which I felt so strongly during my recent visit to your country. Your support of the struggle against apartheid restored me in my journey home and reassured me that many just people around the world are with us.

True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.