I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

If you don't allow people to contribute, to offer their point of view, or to criticize what has been put before them, then they can never like you. And you can never build that instrument of collective leadership.

Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation

I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.