Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

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

There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized.

I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.