We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. 

Today we must remove distinction of high and low, rich and poor, caste and creed.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. 

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!