The world is truly round and seems to start and end with those we love.

Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strenthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.