We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of race and setting us against each other as oppressed and oppressor. That system committed a crime against humanity.

Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.

It's a tragedy what is happening, what Bush is doing. All Bush wants is Iraqi oil. There is no doubt that the U.S. is behaving badly. Why are they not seeking to confiscate weapons of mass destruction from their ally Israel? This is just an excuse to get Iraq's oil.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .

An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress