If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.