A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.

The Good News borne by our risen Messiah who chose not one race, who chose not one country, who chose not one language, who chose not one tribe, who chose all of humankind!

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.

We have introduced a democratic constitution, which put suvery South African on an equal basis.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

We can't win a war, but we can win an election.