Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.

Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of.

It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.

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

There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.

Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent