Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .

I knew we could improve our lives even in jail. We could come out as different men, and we could even come out with two degrees. Educating ourselves was a way to give ourselves the most powerful weapon for freedom.

Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.

There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

We know what needs to be done - all that is missing is the will to do it.

The world is truly round and seems to start and end with those we love.