The truth is we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free.

The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.

For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this, we destroy dignity and pride. Every woman who has to sell her life for sex we condemn to a lifetime in prison. For every moment we remain silent, we conspire against our women. For every woman infected by HIV, we destroy a generation.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what you desire it to be: a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist country. And that is a great task.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I was called a terrorist yesterday... Today I am admired by the very people who said I was one.