Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems.

I'm rather inclined to liking people.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.