To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.

The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.

I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.