We need a fundamental change of mindset with regards to the way we speak and behave about sex and sexuality. Boys and men have a particularly critical role in this regard, changing the chauvinist and demeaning ways sexuality and women were traditionally dealt with in both our actions and speaking.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations

A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of race and setting us against each other as oppressed and oppressor. That system committed a crime against humanity.

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.