Quotes from Kenneth Kaunda

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ambition never comes to an end.

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