Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.

Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy

When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery.

Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.

I knew we could improve our lives even in jail. We could come out as different men, and we could even come out with two degrees. Educating ourselves was a way to give ourselves the most powerful weapon for freedom.

Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.