We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.

Some of the mission groups that have been responsible for our education have not been part of the government. In fact, they acted contrary to what the government had planned to do.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.

There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst blacks, amongst whites, and amongst Afrikaans and English speaking people.

We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.