"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear."

"“I always remember the regent’s axiom: a leader, he said, is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the …"

"This was an all too typical South African story. It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of oppor…"

"But seeing Frank and his wife began to undermine my parochialism and loosen the hold of the tribalism that still impr…"

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People mus…"

"It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the fre…"

"I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is ta…"

"When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. Some say that has…"

"I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have d…"

"I was not born with a hunger to be free. I was born free — free in every way that I could know. Free to run in the fi…"