Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the wishes and aspirations of the oppressed. Such was Steve Biko, a fitting product of his time; a proud representative of the re-awakening of a people.

HIV/AIDS is the greatest danger we have faced for many, many centuries. HIV/AIDS is worse than a war. It is like a world war. Millions of people are dying from it.

When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.