Kumi Naidoo Quotes

Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'

A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'

Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.

You know how they say, 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?' What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic.

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs.

The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss around them and so on.

Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I'm a saint."

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a hero to the world.

I think even though he [Nelson Mandela] was feted and praised as he was, he always was at pains to say, I'm a human being.

Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest."

[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person.

Nelson Mandela also spoke about how, as a human being, he's made mistakes.

With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.