What freedom am I being offered while the organization of the people remains banned? Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

Each of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld - a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.

It only seems impossible until it's done.

We understand and promote the notion that while children need to be guided they also have an entrenched right to be whatever they want to be and that they can achieve this only if they are given the space to dream and live out their dreams.

Therefore, we must not look at the African people, even before they met whites, as if they had something unique, which was not to be found in other societies.