The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

There are people here [in South Africa] who, whatever the debate is on a particular issue, their dominating idea is that at the end of the debate we must emerge stronger than we were before and closer to one another.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.