The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system. But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians...

This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people - men and women, boys and girls - that make the world a special place

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

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

The world is truly round and seems to start and end with those we love.