The call now is for each of us to ask ourselves: are we doing all we can to help build the country of our dreams?

A movement without vision would be a movement without moral foundation.

Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

I do not think that I was brought up in a unique society with unique features about giving.

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.