No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

If you want to change the world, help the women.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility.

Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.