I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Don't give any chance tosomeone to stole ur aim, collect ur full potential to get itand prove that ur achiever.......

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.

I've never enjoyed a course or training as much as this. I feel inspired, energised and more focussed about my teaching and career future.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

To any honest observer, Zimbabwe's sin is that it has taken the position to right a wrong, whose resolution has been too long overdue--to return its land to its people.

Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions.

A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.

All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.