Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

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.

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

It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.

Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development.

We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms.