Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way to make it appear like a normal illness

We forgive but not forgotten

Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up.

I cannot overemphasise the value we place on a free, independent and outspoken press

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.