Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression... Our endeavors must be about the liberation of the woman, the emancipation of the man and the liberty of the child.

Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.

If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important - and you do that by being genuine and humble.

Our people outside of prison used my name to mobilize the community locally and internationally. But for me to be treated separately from my colleagues, who had contributed as much as and even more than I had, would have been a betrayal of them.