Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

History will surely judge us harshly if we do not respond with all the energy and resources that we can bring to bear in the fight against HIV/AIDS

I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them didn't even believe in apartheid.

The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."