As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.

It's not our weaknesses that frighten us. It's our strengths.

Children are the most important asset in a country. For them to become that asset, they must receive education and love from their parents.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

There's one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for human rights and liberty!

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.