We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.

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.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what you desire it to be: a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist country. And that is a great task.

I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.

If you want to preach a revolutionary message, wear a suit.

Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.