Mandela demonstrated that action and ideas are not enough. No matter how right, they must be chiseled into law and institutions. Eulogy of Nelson Mandela (2013)
And so we, too, must act on behalf of justice. We, too, must act on behalf of peace. Eulogy of Nelson Mandela (2013)
The struggles that follow the victory of formal equality or universal franchise may not be as filled with drama and moral clarity as those that came before, but they are no less important. Eulogy of Nelson Mandela (2013)
It took a man like Madiba to free not just the prisoner, but the jailer as well to show that you must trust others so that they may trust you; to teach that reconciliation is not a matter of ignoring a cruel past, but a means of confronting it with inclusion and generosity and truth. Eulogy of Nelson Mandela (2013)