The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important - and you do that by being genuine and humble.

The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

The private sector granted bursaries [scholarships] for the children of their workers. Some of them built homes for their workers. They had in-service training, which improved the skills of their workers. So that spirit was there. All we did was merely exploit it.