No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

The value of our shared reward will and must be measured by the joyful peace which will triumph, because the common humanity that bonds both black and white in…

First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.

On the eventual death of racism: 'What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.'