Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

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

We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image.

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

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

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.