Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars.

What we did was to try and exploit that spirit [the idea of giving], which was there even before I approached individual South Africans [to give to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund]. I think we must start from that angle.

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.

For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this, we destroy dignity and pride. Every woman who has to sell her life for sex we condemn to a lifetime in prison. For every moment we remain silent, we conspire against our women. For every woman infected by HIV, we destroy a generation.

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

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.