Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

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.

Democracy meant all men were to be heard, and a decision was taken together as a people. Majority rule was a foreign notion. A minority was not to be crushed by a majority.

Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent.

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones

A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution.

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

Know your enemy — and learn about his favorite sport.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.