Oliver Tambo

"The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until it is won."

"Unity is strength. Division is weakness."

"An ideal is not as ideal unless it is universal."

"We must never give up the fight for justice, no matter how long it takes."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell and got back up."

"True peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it."

"Our freedom will not be complete until all people are free."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"I am not truly free if I take away someone else's freedom."

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made."

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."

"Patience and persistence are two separate things, but both are necessary."

"There is no greater investment than in our youth and their education."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Love is the most powerful force in the world, more powerful than hate."

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."

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

"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires."

"No one is born hating another person. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love."

"The time is always right to do what is right."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."

"The greatest threat to freedom is a government that does not fear the people."

"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."