The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight.

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined.

Racism is a blight on the human conscience