Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

The Commonwealth makes the world safe for diversity

You know you are really famous the day you discover you have become a comic character!

You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.