A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.

I am not interested in picking up the crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, "I love you. I care for you, enormously." And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.