A Few Words From, and About, Joe Slovo...

"When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop."

Joe Slovo, from an interview by Gaye Davis, 11 February 1991.

"He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems."

From Nelson Mandela's eulogy for Joe Slovo, 15 January 1995.