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He Knew When To Compromise. Yet He Never Compromised His Principles. He Was A Militant. Yet A Militant Who Knew How To Plan, Assess Concrete Situations And Emerge With Rational Solutions To Problems.

We Have Laid The Foundation For A Better Life. Things That Were Unimaginable A Few Years Ago Have Become Everyday Reality. I Belong To The Generation Of Leaders For Whom The Achievement Of Democracy Was The Defining Challenge.

We Are Extricating Ourselves From A System That Insulted Our Common Humanity By Dividing Us From One Another On The Basis Of Race And Setting Us Against Each Other As Oppressed And Oppressor. That System Committed A Crime Against Humanity.

Sometimes Strident, Often Tender, Never Afraid And Seldom Without Humour, Desmond Tutu's Voice Will Always Be The Voice Of The Voiceless.

We Have Introduced A Rule Of Law. That Never Existed For Centuries In This Country [south Africa], Especially Under The Apartheid Regime, When The Law Was Reduced Into Disrepute.