I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.

The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.

We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.

When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by instances of that kind.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.