A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future.

I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free.