In My Country We Go To Prison

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.

Justice And I Became Friends, Though We Were Opposites In Many Ways - He Was Extroverted, I Was Introverted; He Was Lighthearted, I Was Serious.

Only Free Men Can Negotiate; Prisoners Cannot Enter Into Contracts. Your Freedom And Mine Cannot Be Separated.

The Time Will Come When Our Nation Will Honour The Memory Of All The Sons, The Daughters, The Mothers, The Fathers, The Youth And The Children Who, By Their Thoughts And Deeds, Gave Us The Right To Assert With Pride That We Are South Africans, That We Are Africans, And That We Are Citizens Of The World.

I Have Taken A Moment Here To Rest, To Steal A View Of The Glorious Vista That Surrounds Me, To Look Back On The Distance I Have Come.