People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‘We want peace, we want stability,’ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.
Poverty is not natural; it is man-made.
There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires.
I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.
Millions of people in the world’s poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free.
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.
Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.
Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
It’s not our weaknesses that frighten us. It’s our strengths.
The Commonwealth makes the world safe for diversity.
The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds.
None of us, acting alone, can achieve success.
We shall immunize every child in Africa to get rid of this terrible disease forever.
Only 50 years ago persons with intellectual disabilities were scorned, isolated and neglected. Today, they are able to attend school, become employed and assimilate into their local community.
If there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people it is soccer.
Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter.
When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up.
The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk.
It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.