I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the youth and the children who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans, and that we are citizens of the world.

The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have come about through the missionary work of the Church.

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

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

Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice