Our Society Needs To Re-establish A Culture

If You Don't Allow People To Contribute, To Offer Their Point Of View, Or To Criticize What Has Been Put Before Them, Then They Can Never Like You. And You Can Never Build That Instrument Of Collective Leadership.

I Went As An Observer, Not A Participant, For I Do Not Think That I Ever Spoke. I Wanted To Understand The Issues Under Discussion, Evaluate The Arguments, See The Calibre Of The Men Involved.

One Of The Things That Made Me Long To Be Back In Prison Was That I Had So Little Opportunity For Reading, Thinking And Quiet Reflection After My Release. I Intend, Amongst Other Things, To Give Myself Much More Opportunity For Such Reading And Reflection.

Any Man Or Institution That Tries To Rob Me Of My Dignity Will Lose.

There Are People Here [in South Africa] Who, Whatever The Debate Is On A Particular Issue, Their Dominating Idea Is That At The End Of The Debate We Must Emerge Stronger Than We Were Before And Closer To One Another.