... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home and have a good job; to be able to send your children to school and to have accessible healthcare. I mean what's the point of having made this transition if the quality of life ... is not enhanced and improved? If not, the vote is useless.

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is the same with homosexuality. The orientation is a given, not a matter of choice. It would be crazy for someone to choose to be gay, given the homophobia that is present.

You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.