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

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.

When the humility of someone is undermined, whether I like it or not mine is undermined as well.

I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to be selective about the things that we remember. If you want to destroy people, destroy their memory, destroy their history.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.