No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent

Of course we desire education and we think it is a good thing, but you don't have to have education in order to know that you want certain fundamental rights, you have got aspirations, you have got acclaims. It has nothing to do with education whatsoever.

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

Those South Africans who berate me for being loyal to our friends, literally they can go and throw themselves into a pool. I am not going to betray the trust of those who helped us.

The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.