“This work is not for yourselves – kill that spirit of self, and do not live above your people but live with them. If you can rise, bring someone with you.”

Charlotte Maxeke

“There is no vocabulary to describe the nobility and the pathos of the conscious sacrifices that the black youth of South Africa have made over the last four months to free themselves, their people, and their country from forces that are determined to keep us forever their chattels. Together with their mothers and their fathers they have seen hundreds of their compatriots pay the supreme sacrifice rather than accept a life of enslavement.” – Oliver Tambo, UN General Assembly, 1976

“…I would like to emphasize the aims of our campaign over again. We are not in opposition to any government or class of people. We are opposing a system that has for years kept a vast section of the non-European people in bondage.

Though it takes us years, we are prepared to continue the campaign…”

Nelson Mandela