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"What he means by this is that instead of saying you'll "try", you need to "do". And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
"Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have."
"Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country."
"Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. That is why it is so important that the FIFA World Cup will, for the first time ever, be hosted on the African continent in 2010. We feel privileged and humbled that South Africa has been given this singular honour of being the African host country."
"I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion."
"Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope."
"For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them."
"Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of."
"Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom."
"The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That it is invariably women, children, the aged and disabled who suffer in these conflicts stands to the added shame of humankind."
"I dust [your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I'm caressing you as in the old days. I even touch your nose with mine to recapture the electric current that used to flush through my blood whenever I did so."
"Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets."
"I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot."
"I would like to be remembered not as anyone unique or special, but as part of a great team in this country that has struggled for many years, for decades and even centuries. The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall."
"Leaders will have to give clear and decisive leadership towards a world of tolerance and respect for difference, and an uncompromising commitment to peaceful solutions of conflicts and disputes."
"It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the wishes and aspirations of the oppressed. Such was Steve Biko, a fitting product of his time; a proud representative of the re-awakening of a people."
"It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty."
"No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent"
"History will surely judge us harshly if we do not respond with all the energy and resources that we can bring to bear in the fight against HIV/AIDS"
"We understand and promote the notion that while children need to be guided they also have an entrenched right to be whatever they want to be and that they can achieve this only if they are given the space to dream and live out their dreams."