If you make one gift this year, make it the gift of knowledge.

When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.

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

I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.

I am the captain of my soul.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of race and setting us against each other as oppressed and oppressor. That system committed a crime against humanity.