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.

We raise our voices in holy gladness to celebrate the victory of the risen Christ over the terrible forces of death.

Let us join hands and build a truly South African nation.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

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

Justice and I became friends, though we were opposites in many ways - he was extroverted, I was introverted; he was lighthearted, I was serious.

There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.