"The day had finally dawned when we would vote, when we could vote for the first time in a democratic election in the land of our birth. I had waited until I was sixty-two years old before I could vote. Nelson Mandela was seventy-six. That was what would happen today, April 27th, 1994" (Chapter 1, pg. 3.)

"Nelson Mandela was duly elected President by the first democratically elected National Assembly of the new South Africa" (Chapter 1, pg. 11.)

"The school must equip the Bantu to meet the demands which the economic life will impose on him .... What is the use of teaching a Bantu child mathematics when it cannot use it in practice? ... Education must train and teach people in accordance with their opportunities in life..." (Chapter 2, pg. 16.)

"And that third way was granting amnesty to individuals in exchange for a full disclosure relating to the crime for which amnesty was being...