Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony.

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.

We can't win a war, but we can win an election.

We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.

I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.