The march to freedom is irreversible.

We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.

We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of race and setting us against each other as oppressed and oppressor. That system committed a crime against humanity.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

It is my greatest wish that the Children’s Fund should continue to be a beacon of hope and light.

We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.