Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

This great son of the world, Madiba, showed us the way. Whether you are white, black yellow or brown you are all God's children, come together, work together and God will show you the way.

The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.

People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.

War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.

My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.

The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.

If I can hold God's attention, I can hold the world's..

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.

I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't.

People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents.

I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range.

The 'Libertarian' thing was a mistake on my part for saying it, but I am.

Drink your coffee -- people in Africa are sleeping.

My upbringing gave me a strong will, a mental aggressiveness in what I wanted to achieve.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.