If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.

It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.

Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind.