It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

I am sure that if somebody is giving a sum to charity, he or she should be encouraged to do so by the authorities because the spirit in which we encourage people to give has permeated our society.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

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

It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.