"My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy."

"The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society."

"Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people."

"I fight AIDS because it’s a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields."

"This great son of the world, Madiba, showed us the way. Whether you are white, black, yellow or brown you are all God’s children, come together, work together and God will show you the way."

"The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change."

"The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence."

"War is just like bush-clearing. The moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost."

"The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways – through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war."

"People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It’s no good demonising Robert Mugabe."

"We fought colonialism. We must now use the same zeal to fight AIDS, which threatens to wipe out Africa."