There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

We can't fight AIDS unless we do much more to fight TB as well.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

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

I feel like a young man of 15.

No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea.

No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.