I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions.

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.

Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.

Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.

I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.