I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white. I will punish you because you are a woman; you should have been a man. I punish you because you are homosexual; you ought to have been heterosexual. I can't, I can't for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things.

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

God is on the side of the oppressed.

One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.

A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders.

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

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.