Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

There are many people who have worked just because they love the community in which they are in, without expecting any financial consideration.

The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter; you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being.

An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.