"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."
"I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. 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."
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies."
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."