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

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.

We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms.

Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.

When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery.

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.