When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home amongst compatriots

The call now is for each of us to ask ourselves: are we doing all we can to help build the country of our dreams?

The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow.

If you sit down and talk to a person, it's easy to convince him that apartheid can never save a country and will lead to the slaughtering of innocent people - including his own people.

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.