We can't fight AIDS unless we do much more to fight TB as well.

It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.

We understand and promote the notion that while children need to be guided they also have an entrenched right to be whatever they want to be and that they can achieve this only if they are given the space to dream and live out their dreams.

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way to make it appear like a normal illness