If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

We of the ANC had always stood for a non-racial democracy, and we shrank from any action which might drive the races further apart than they already were.

Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter.