We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life.

The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all.

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.

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.

You know you are really famous the day you discover you have become a comic character!

The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds