I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system. But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians...

My family is very large. 42 million.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this man has done his duty.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.