Quotes

I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

It is easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.

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.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Freedom cannot be achieved unless the women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression.

Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.