I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.
My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.
I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone.
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
I'm not an optimist. I'm a prisoner of hope.
At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'
I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I have also seen incredible forgiveness and compassion. Yes, each of us has the capacity for great evil. But for every act of evil there are a dozen acts of goodness in our world that go unnoticed. It is only because we believe that people should be good that we despair when they are not. Indeed, if people condoned the evil, we would be justified in losing hope. But most of the world does not. We know that we are meant for better.
I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.
But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard are not militarily powerful, nor even economically prosperous. They have a commitment to try and make the world a better place.
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
And every human being is precious.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]
There can be no healing without truth.
Nothing is too much trouble for Love.
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.
When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people.
We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
"We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons."
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