If I am your leader, you have to listen to me & if you don’t want to listen to me, then drop me as your leader

Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems.

Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.

To go to prison because of your convictions and be prepared to suffer for what you believe in, is something worthwhile. It is an achievement for a man to do his duty on earth irrespective of the consequences.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

Adversity cleanses the lethargies of man

We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do. To claim this century the African Century is to declare war on AIDS.