As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.

We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.

Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

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.

Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.