If you don't allow people to contribute, to offer their point of view, or to criticize what has been put before them, then they can never like you. And you can never build that instrument of collective leadership.

When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery.

The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home amongst compatriots

The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

The death sentence is a barbaric act.