Our society needs to re-establish a culture of caring.

In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility.

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

We succeeded to take our last steps to freedom in conditions of relative peace. We commit ourselves to the construction of a complete, just and lasting peace. We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.