My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.

When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can. Personally, I found strength in Michael Jackson.

Individuals get caught up in the policy of their country. In prison, for instance, a warden or officer is not promoted if he doesn't follow the policy of the government - though he himself does not believe in that policy.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

Teach the children that Africans are not one iota inferior to Europeans.

Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities, who rob our businesses and undermine our economy, who ply their destructive trade in drugs in our schools, and who do violence against our women and children.