We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.