There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.

Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind.

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions.

It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for: to live in a safe environment, to be able to work and provide for themselves, to have access to good public health and to have sound educational opportunities for their children.