"Let us join hands and build a..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela

“Know your enemy - and learn about his favorite sport.”

“Each of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld - a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.”

“I learned to have the patience to listen when people put forward their views, even if I think those views are wrong. You can't reach a just decision in a dispute unless you listen to both sides.”

“We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success. We must therefore act together as a united people, for national reconciliation, for nation building, for the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world. Let freedom reign.”

“Our rich and varied cultural heritage has aprofound power to help build our nation”

“[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.”

“The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom.”

“We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.”

“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”