Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.

No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.