A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.

Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.