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.

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.

Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

Individuals get caught up in the policy of their country. In prison, for instance, a warden or officer is not promoted if he doesn't follow the policy of the government - though he himself does not believe in that policy.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

I'm not going to sit here and argue with you. Just PUT THE BLOODY METER ON.

Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities, who rob our businesses and undermine our economy, who ply their destructive trade in drugs in our schools, and who do violence against our women and children.