I do not think that I was brought up in a unique society with unique features about giving.

If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all.

I was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for, because of what I thought, because of my conscience... If I had my time over I would do the same again. So would any man who dares call himself a man.

The march to freedom is irreversible.

I knew we could improve our lives even in jail. We could come out as different men, and we could even come out with two degrees. Educating ourselves was a way to give ourselves the most powerful weapon for freedom.

I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.