1980 - Zimbabwean Independence

"If yesterday I fought you as an enemy, today you have become a friend and an ally with the same national interest, loyalty, rights, and duties as myself."

"It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power."

"If you were my enemy, you are now my friend. If you hated me, you cannot avoid the love that binds me to you and you to me."