Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.

I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book.

What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.

You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.

People say, 'Surely there's the right reasons for going to war?' And my perspective is, 'Surely there's a better way of asking that question?'

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on.

After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was true until after World War II. But middle-class white women married less and later.