"When I walked out of prison, that..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela

“Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems”

“I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.”

“Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors”

“When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.”

“Yet it is only love which sets us free.”

“Let us put away our blinders and answer the call to Joy.”

“Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.”

“Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.”

“In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.”