I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

I am the captain of my soul.

Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.

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.