In human affairs, no single person, organisation or social formation ever has a final or an absolutely correct position. It is through conversation, debate and critical discussion that we approach positions that may provide workable solutions.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

We have introduced a rule of law. That never existed for centuries in this country [South Africa], especially under the apartheid regime, when the law was reduced into disrepute.

I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free.

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.

The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That it is invariably women, children, the aged and disabled who suffer in these conflicts stands to the added shame of humankind.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.