55
In retrospect, I realize that we did not exhaust all the options available to us…..I was young and impatient, and did not see any virtue in waiting. Escape seemed the only way.
84
We were not different people with separate languages; we were one people, with different tongues.
182
I saw how my own people had remained in one place, while I had moved on and seen new worlds and gained new ideas…..if I had returned, my political evolution would have been stunted.
192
I was not going to let my involvement in the struggle and the scope of my political activities be determined by the enemy I was fighting against.
201
A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.
267
The key to being underground is to be invisible. Just as there is a way to walk in a room in order to make yourself stand out, there is a way of walking and behaving that makes you inconspicuous.
298
Guerrilla warfare…was not designed to win a military victory so much as to unleash political and economic forces that would bring down the enem…..not to neglect the political side of war……international public opinion…is sometimes worth more than a fleet of jet fighters.
305
A liberation army is an egalitarian army. You must treat your men entirely differently than you would in a capitalist army……But when you are off duty, you must conduct yourself on the basis of perfect equality.
367
many leaders of the newly independent states of Africa, who accepted the need for some form of socialism to enable their people to catch up with the advanced countries of the West.
390
It would be very hard if not impossible for one man alone to resist. I do not know that I could have done it had I been alone.
488
To survive in prison, one must develop ways to take satisfaction in one’s daily life.
526
There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.
623
I was not born with a hunger to be free. I was born free — free in every way that I could know.