Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

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.

Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

The world in which we live is geographically one. The great challenge now is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.