It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon.

The truth is we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free.

The best weapon is to sit down and talk.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.