Ndaba Mandela Quotes

There has to come a time when we children of apartheid, black and white, say to each other, "Look, my grandparents were not right with your grandparents. My parents were not right with your parents. But I want to be right with you." We have to be the generation who understands that racism, sexism, homophobia, religious bigotry - inequality in all its ugly guises - splinters the most powerful asset available to humankind: unity.

As I travel the world, I hear young brothers and sisters talk about the "American dream"--a big house with a swimming pool and posh furniture and a servant--and I recognize that place as a jail. I hear talk, talk, talk on adverts and reality tv shows, nattering constantly about that narrow vision or worth and wealth, and I can't help but contrast that with the young African in Monrovia whose dream is to have a library, or the child in Syria whose dream is to go to a school with a roof, or the young black man in the United States who's attacked for simply saying, "My life matters.