There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

Now we are in the second term of the government of a united nation and the government has done very well. One thing they have done, one thing people could not be blind to, was the achievement this government has made in giving human beings dignity, which they did not enjoy before. They now have dignity.

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

On the The AIDS Epidemic: This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters ... We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.