"The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns."
From a message to the Global Convention on
Peace and Non-violence, New Delhi, India
January 31, 2004
"We must ensure that color, race and gender become only a God-given gift to each one of us and not an indelible mark or attribute that accords status to any."
Forty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly,
New York City, USA, October 2, 1004
"In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education. These are, of course, important in measuring one's success in material matters and it is perfectly understandable if many people exert themselves mainly to achieve all these. But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing our development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life."
From a letter to Winnie Mandela,
written on Robben Island, February 1, 1975
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