Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?"

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.