No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.

A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.

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

We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image.

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

There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.