The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.

We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

The USA is a threat to world peace. Who are they to pretend that they are the policemen of the world, the ones that should decide for the people of Iraq what should be done with their government and their leadership. All that [the USA] wants is Iraqi oil. [Blair is] simply the foreign minister of the United States. He is no longer prime minister of Britain.

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

There's no such thing as part freedom.

Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.