A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

There is a constant struggle between good an evil in the world. It is up to good people to choose the right side

Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by a white orderly? Can anyone honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced?

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.