Perjuangan kita untuk kemerdekaan dan keadilan merupakan usaha kolektif. Ada di tangan kalian untuk menciptakan dunia yang lebih baik bagi semua orang yang hidup di dalamnya.
Saya mengakui bahwa saya punya hak apa pun untuk menghakimi orang lain berdasarkan adat kebiasaan saya sendiri, betapa pun saya boleh bangga dengan kebiasaan saya itu.
Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.
Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.
Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.
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.
Tak ada orang yang terlahir untuk membenci orang lain karena warna kulitnya, latar belakangnya, atau agamanya. Orang harus belajar untuk membenci. Jika bisa belajar untuk membenci, maka mereka bisa diajar untuk mengasihi karena kasih lebih alamiah bagi hati manusia ketimbang sebaliknya.
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
Sebuah hati yang baik dan sebuah kepala yang baik akan selalu menjadi sebuah kombinasi yang dahsyat.