I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely "tolerated", they are valued.

The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.

To have compromise you must first have dialog. That is the true path of democracy.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of the greater national entity. For that they have to be confident that they too have an active role to play in shaping the destiny of the state that demands their allegiance.