In order to build our nation, we must all exceed our own expectations.
Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development.
Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems.
When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery.
Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.
Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people.
For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.
AIDS is our number one enemy. This enemy can be defeated. While the research for a cure continues, four principles – love, support, acceptance and care for those affected – can make us winners.
I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.
While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.
It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for: to live in a safe environment, to be able to work and provide for themselves, to have access to good public health and to have sound educational opportunities for their children.
For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society.
The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.
Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.
It enables me to go to bed with an enriching feeling in my soul and the belief that I am changing myself.
I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.
Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.
Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions.
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation.