The full meaning of liberation will not be realized until our people are freed both from oppression and from the dehumanizing legacy of deprivation we inherited from our past.

Inaugural address (June 16, 1999)- [Response when asked "Are you prepared to acknowledge that there is a link between HIV and AIDS?":] I am saying that you cannot attribute immune deficiency solely and exclusively to a virus. Interview. TIME (September 11, 2000)