"The power of education extends beyond the development of skills we need for economic success."

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."

"Only free men can negotiate; a prisoner cannot enter into contracts."

"It is what we make out of what we have given, not what we are given, that separates one person from another."

"Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me."

"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."

"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will."

"Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another."

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

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

"Appearances matter — and remember to smile."

"As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison."

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

"Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life."

"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up."