The calm and tolerant atmosphere that prevailed during the elections depicts the type of South Africa we can build. It set the tone for the future. We might have our differences, but we are one people with a common destiny in our rich variety of culture, race and tradition.

In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

We know what needs to be done - all that is missing is the will to do it.

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because there is no time to do anything else except to try and save your people.

The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."