For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.