"Umkhonto we Sizwe - Born of the People": Statement of the National Executive Comittee of the ANC on the 25th Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1986
… With the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe our people were now better equipped to grasp history into their own hands. … arm of our people. Combatants of Umkhonto we Sizwe, you are the flower of successive generations of our youth … Every organised formation of our people - our workers, our women, our rural people, our youth and students, the township …