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.

Quitting is leading too.

I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.

We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many.

Teach the children that Africans are not one iota inferior to Europeans.

The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds

It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people.