It's in your hands to make the world a better place.

I understand that the legal position is under review in South Africa and that there will soon be a broader set of organizations to which donors can give and claim tax deductions.

If we are to accomplish anything in this world, it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of others.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically denied their rights. At the same time, democracy also requires that the rights of political and other minorities be safeguarded.

Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.