If I am your leader, you have to listen to me & if you don’t want to listen to me, then drop me as your leader

If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all.

We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.

I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them didn't even believe in apartheid.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

We can't fight AIDS unless we do much more to fight TB as well.

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.