I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I, and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.
I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because there is no time to do anything else except to try and save your people.
Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.
Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.
To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.
Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.
I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.
The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly.
You know, you can only lead them from behind.
I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.
I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.
My son has died of AIDS.
If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.
There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.
Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.
I cannot overemphasise the value we place on a free, independent and outspoken press.
In human affairs, no single person, organisation or social formation ever has a final or an absolutely correct position. It is through conversation, debate and critical discussion that we approach positions that may provide workable solutions.
For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.