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.

I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.

I pay tribute to the endless heroism of youth.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

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

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.