The laws that stopped blacks from voting were the worst, because they prevented blacks from voting someone into parliament who could change the other laws. Even though the blacks were the majority of the population, they were still not getting a say.

No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.

If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

What we did was to try and exploit that spirit [the idea of giving], which was there even before I approached individual South Africans [to give to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund]. I think we must start from that angle.

There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery.

I was called a terrorist yesterday... Today I am admired by the very people who said I was one.