There is no such thing as a nonracial society in a multiracial country.
-- F. W. de Klerk, President of South Africa,
-- quoted in "Time", 11 September 1989
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human
history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts
to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he
sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a
million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build
a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and
resistance....