Although we had no hope of defeating the enemy in the battlefield, nevertheless, we fought back to keep the idea of liberation alive.

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match.

I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

In South Africa, to be poor and black was normal, to be poor and white was a tragedy.

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.

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness.

Non-violence is a good policy when conditions permit.

Violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.

In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility.