Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'

There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.

No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.

Each one of us is not a divine afterthought.

God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.