It is always impossible until it is done.

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

Trade justice for the developing world and for this generation is a truly significant way for the developed countries to show commitment to bringing about an end to global poverty.

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.

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.

Part of building a new nation means building a spirit of tolerance, love and respect amongst the people of this country.

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.