We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.

Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.

Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.

If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important - and you do that by being genuine and humble.

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.

There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized.