No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

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

No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.

I am sure that if somebody is giving a sum to charity, he or she should be encouraged to do so by the authorities because the spirit in which we encourage people to give has permeated our society.

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.