I cannot overemphasise the value we place on a free, independent and outspoken press

As we judge others so are we judged by others. The suspicious will always be tormented by suspicion.

There are people here [in South Africa] who, whatever the debate is on a particular issue, their dominating idea is that at the end of the debate we must emerge stronger than we were before and closer to one another.

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.

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

It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people.