Leaders will have to give clear and decisive leadership towards a world of tolerance and respect for difference, and an uncompromising commitment to peaceful solutions of conflicts and disputes.

A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.

AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.

The truth is we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free.