It's in your hands to make the world a better place.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.

The Commonwealth makes the world safe for diversity

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

I admire young people who are concerned with the affairs of their community and nation perhaps because I also became involved in struggle whist I was still at school.

The truth is we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free.