In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.

A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. It must have the economic strength to stand up to the blandishments of government officials. It must have sufficient independence from vested interests to be bold and inquiring without fear or favour. It must enjoy the protection of the constitution, so that it can protect our rights as citizens.

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

At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject our people to armed attacks by the state without offering them some kind of alternative. I mentioned again that people on their own had taken up arms. Violence would begin whether we initiated it or not. Would it not be better to guide this violence ourselves, according to principles where we saved lives by attacking symbols of oppression, and not people? If we did not take the lead now, I said, we would soon be latecomers and followers to a movement we did not control.

I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free.