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Albert Luthuli Quotes

1890–1967 South Africa

Albert John Luthuli (c. 1898 – 21 July 1967) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, traditional leader, and politician who served as the President-General of the African National Congress from 1952 until his murder in 1967.

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It is not merely our freedom that is at stake, but yours as well.

We in South Africa are part of the world, and not apart from it.

It is inevitable that in working for freedom some people may have to suffer. If you are not ready for that, you do not deserve freedom.

The task before us is not the emancipation of the African alone, but the emancipation of all humanity from the hatred and fear that divide people from one another.

Who could deny that much of the present bitterness between the races in South Africa stems from the uncompromising white refusal to accept the African as a fellow human being?

My own urge is to persuade the South African government, by taking a supreme risk, to make a human issue rather than a racial one of the immense problems facing our country.

The road to freedom is via the cross.

Our vision has always been that of a non-racial democratic South Africa which upholds the rights of all who live in our country to remain there as full citizens with equal rights and responsibilities.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Albert Luthuli (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.