community Quotes

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.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

Good actions give strength to ourselvesand inspire good actions in others.

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.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.