Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.

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.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility.

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees.