Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

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

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.

Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its impulses for nonviolence, justice and equality. He exposes the fallacy of the claim that everyone can be rich and successful provided they work hard. He points to the millions who work themselves to the bone and still remain hungry.