A movement without vision would be a movement without moral foundation.

We succeeded to take our last steps to freedom in conditions of relative peace. We commit ourselves to the construction of a complete, just and lasting peace. We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people.

Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.

Apart from life, a strong constitusion and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

There is nothing to popularize a person. Only humility, which is the ability to remain in the background and to put others in the front light.