An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress

Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

The time is always right to do right.

The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.

Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.

To the youth of today, I also have a wish to make: be the scriptwriters of your destiny and feature yourselves as stars that showed the way towards a brighter future.

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history.