I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

We must also know that even before liberation in 1994 there [in South Africa] were people with resources who tried to share with those who were deprived.

He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

Know your enemy - and learn about his favorite sport.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.