It is appropriate that we celebrate Martin Luther King, a man who struggled so valiantly to restore humanity to the oppressed and the oppressor. - Chinua Achebe

Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.

I wouldn't put myself under the democratic dictatorship even of angels and archangels.