Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.
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.
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.
I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
