It is increasingly hard for young white people to find jobs, and I can understand why white parents are worried about the future.

My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that.

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

When you teach, you learn." "And I really don't go for religions of any kind. ...I reject them all....There were principles I thought were very important.

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa – it is your answers.

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

When you teach, you learn.

Belief and faith are the spiritual soul of every man.

...I feel like a traitor, a phony, a fake. But I am a hypocrite with the best intentions, and I need kissing desperately.

I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

If your day is full of little mean, dark thoughts, is it any wonder you feel crabby? Maybe it's because you let your mind run wild like a dog putting its nose into garbage everywhere.

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.