There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress

I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.