Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the youth and the children who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans, and that we are citizens of the world.

Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.