Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile for us to continue talking peace and non-violence - against a government whose only reply is savag…

I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be her…

I remember we adjourned for lunch and a friendly Afrikaner warder asked me the question, 'Mandela, what do you think is going to happen to you in this case?' I…

I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; tho I am sure there was …

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and re…

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.