“Literally tens of thousands of scraps of paper came flooding in: a mixture of smooth writing pad paper, torn pages from ink-blotched school exercise books, bits of cardboard, asymmetrical portions of brown and white paper bags, and even the unprinted margins of newspaper” (Joe Slovo, Joe Slovo: The Unfinished Autobiography, 1995)

“It was humbling to see how the suggestions of ordinary people were often far ahead of those of the leaders” (Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, 1994)