Trade justice for the developing world and for this generation is a truly significant way for the developed countries to show commitment to bringing about an end to global poverty.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole.

Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.

Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of.