World Quotes

Today we are a nation at peace with itself, united in our diversity, not only proclaiming but living out the contention that South Africa belongs to all who live in it. We take our place amongst the nations of the world, confident and proud in being an African country.

The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians; without the resolution of conflicts in East Timor, the Sudan and other parts of the world.

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.

Some mornings I walked out into the courtyard and every living thing there, the seagulls and wagtails, the small trees, and even the stray blades of grass seemed to smile and shine in the sun. It was at such times, when I perceived the beauty of even this small, closed-in corner of the world, that I knew that some day my people and I would be free.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.

Do not look the other way; do not hesitate. Recognize that the world is hungry for action, not words. Act with courage and vision.

When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.

There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong. I don't think we have to look too far to see that. I'm sure that most of you would agree with me in making that assertion.

The real problem is that through our scientific genius we've made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we've failed to make of it a brotherhood.

We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.

Yes, it is love that will save our world and our civilization, love even for enemies.

Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors.

We have inherited a big house, a great world house in which we have to live together - black and white, Easterners and Westerners, Gentiles and Jews, Protestants and Catholics, Moslem and Hindu. If we all learn to do this we, in a real sense, will remain awake through a great revolution.

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

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response.

Somehow in the final analysis, as long as there is poverty in the world, nobody can be totally rich.

We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path.

There are some things that are as basic and as structural in history, and if we don't know these things, we are in danger of destroying ourselves and our world.