- Nelson Mandela: [in prison, to his visiting wife, speaking Xhosa; subtitles read] Tell him that all of us in here agree he should escalate the armed struggle. The country must become ungovernable.
- [last lines]
- Newscaster: Mr. Mandela, the man who has been in prison for nearly three decades, will be appearing in public for the first time any moment now... There is Mr. Mandela, Mr. Nelson Mandela, a free man, taking his first steps into a new South-Africa...
- James Gregory: [in front of TV, reading from the 'Freedom Charter'] "There shall be peace and friendship. And all who love their people and their country shall say, as we say here: These freedoms we will fight for, side by side, throughout our lives, until we have won our liberty."
- Newscaster: That is the man the world has been waiting to see, walking strongly, step by step further into freedom.
- Subtitle: Four years later, in 1994, Nelson Mandela became the first democratically elected president of South-Africa.
- James Gregory: I grew up on a cattle farm in the Transkai. When you got no brothers to play with, you end up playing with the Kaffers.
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