AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue.

Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations

The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning.

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.