Apartheid on Trial: Mandela's Rivonia Speech from the Dock, Half a Century Later.

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. —Nelson Mandela’s Statement in 1964 Rivonia Trial