"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013)
"With confidence we lay our case open before the whole world. Whether we conquer or whether we die: freedom shall rise in Africa like the sun from the morning clouds"
Bram Fischer (1908-1975)
"I like to say, quite long ago my forefathers extended a hand of friendship to people of Europe when they came to that continent. What has happened to the extension of that hand only history can say, but I would like to say, as I receive this prize of peace,
that the hand of Africa was extended.
It was a hand of friendship, if you read history."
Chief Albert Luthuli (1898-1967) accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 1961
"Awaking on Friday morning, June 20, 1913,
the South African Native found himself, not actually a slave,
but a pariah in the land of his birth."
Sol Plaatje (1876-1932) Opening lines from Native Life in South Africa, 1913
"I am the product of the masses of my country
and the product of my enemy"
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936 - 2018)
