Kenneth Kaunda

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

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

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.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.