Racism is a blight on the human conscience

If I am your leader, you have to listen to me & if you don’t want to listen to me, then drop me as your leader

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.

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

Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.