Forget the past.

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

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

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

In its proper meaning equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one is governed, a constitution which guarantees democratic rights to all sections of the population, the right to approach the court for protection or relief in the case of the violation of rights guaranteed in the constitution, and the right to take part in the administration of justice as judges, magistrates, attorneys-general, law advisers and similar positions.

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.