I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject our people to armed attacks by the state without offering them some kind of alternative. I mentioned again that people on their own had taken up arms. Violence would begin whether we initiated it or not. Would it not be better to guide this violence ourselves, according to principles where we saved lives by attacking symbols of oppression, and not people? If we did not take the lead now, I said, we would soon be latecomers and followers to a movement we did not control.

Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future.

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.

Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly? All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.