Kenneth Kaunda

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

Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.

Ambition never comes to an end.

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

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

I've been saying it all along: please do not demonise Robert Mugabe. I'm not saying the methods he's using are correct, but he was put under great pressure.

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

It would have been disastrous for Zambia if we had gone multi-party because these parties would have been used by those opposed to Zambia's participation in the freedom struggle.