The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

AIDS is our number one enemy. This enemy can be defeated. While the research for a cure continues, four principles -- love, support, acceptance and care for those affected -- can make us winners.