Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

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

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.

I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong

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

If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!