In order to build our nation, we must all exceed our own expectations.

I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.

In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.

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

Our people outside of prison used my name to mobilize the community locally and internationally. But for me to be treated separately from my colleagues, who had contributed as much as and even more than I had, would have been a betrayal of them.

It always seems impossible until its done.

The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered.