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.

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is xenophobia, and it's very distressing. But maybe you ought to be lenient with us. We've been free for just 12 years.

When the humility of someone is undermined, whether I like it or not mine is undermined as well.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

God is not a diversion.

I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I have also seen incredible forgiveness and compassion. Yes, each of us has the capacity for great evil. But for every act of evil there are a dozen acts of goodness in our world that go unnoticed. It is only because we believe that people should be good that we despair when they are not. Indeed, if people condoned the evil, we would be justified in losing hope. But most of the world does not. We know that we are meant for better.