I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member.

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.