Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up.

When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

Through its imperialist system Britain brought about untold suffering of millions of people. And this is an historical fact. To be able to admit this would increase the respect, you know, which we have for British institutions.

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair