For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I watched, along with all of you, as the tens of thousands of our people stood patiently in long queues for many hours. Some sleeping on the open ground overnight waiting to cast this momentous vote.

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all.