When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

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

There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested.

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.

There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery.