If you want to preach a revolutionary message, wear a suit.

Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.

We have introduced a rule of law. That never existed for centuries in this country [South Africa], especially under the apartheid regime, when the law was reduced into disrepute.

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested.

Through its imperialist system Britain brought about untold suffering of millions of people. And this is an historical fact. To be able to admit this would increase the respect, you know, which we have for British institutions.

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.