Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

There is no doubt that the United States now feels that they are the only superpower in the world and they can do what they like.

In its proper meaning equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one is governed, a constitution which guarantees democratic rights to all sections of the population, the right to approach the court for protection or relief in the case of the violation of rights guaranteed in the constitution, and the right to take part in the administration of justice as judges, magistrates, attorneys-general, law advisers and similar positions.

I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.

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.

We shall immunize every child in Africa to get rid of this terrible disease forever.