"The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning. I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not…"

"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domina…"

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of…"

"I must deal immediately and at some length with the question of violence. Some of the things so far told to the Court…"

"It is fit and proper to raise the question sharply, what is this rigid color-bar in the administration of justice? Wh…"

"In its proper meaning equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one i…"

"I have already mentioned that I was one of the persons who helped to form Umkhonto. I, and the others who started the…"

"Ethiopia has always held a special place in my own imagination and the prospect of visiting attracted me more strongl…"

"There are thousands of people who feel that it is useless and futile for us to continue talking peace and non-violenc…"

"But the violence which we chose to adopt was not terrorism. We who formed Umkhonto were all members of the African Na…"