While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life.

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

As long as many of our people still live in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as long as many of our people are still without jobs, no South African should rest and wallow in the joy of freedom.

The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the youth and the children who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans, and that we are citizens of the world.

The greatest single challenge facing our globalised world is to combat and eradicate its disparities.

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.