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

The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered.

One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible. Time and time again, conflicts are resolved through shifts that were unimaginable at the start.

A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.

We have introduced a democratic constitution, which put suvery South African on an equal basis.

The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility.

Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.