“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires”

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.”

“Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.”

“I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man”

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

“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”

“There is no such thing as part freedom.”

“Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.”

“I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists”

“Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.”

“I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them”

“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.”

“I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.”

“The temptation in our situation is to speak in muffled tones about an issue such as the right of the people of Palestine to a state of their own. We can easily be enticed to read reconciliation and fairness as meaning parity between justice and injustice. Having achieved our own freedom, we can fall into the trap of washing our hands of difficulties that others faces.”

“If there is a country in the world that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.”