Some of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident.

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.

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.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

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

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.