The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.

I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.

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

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.