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Anton Lembede Quotes

1914–1947 South Africa

Anton Muziwakhe Lembede OLG (21 March 1914 – 30 July 1947) was a South African activist and founding president of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL). He has been described as "the principal architect of South Africa's first full-fledged ideology of African nationalism." Lembede was regarded as the progenitor of the "Programme of Action" that was adopted as a guiding document by the 1949 meeting of the African National Congress.

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I live for the freedom of my people, and I shall die for Africa's freedom.

Agriculture is of primordial significance in the progress of a nation.

My heart yearns for the glory of an Africa that is gone. But I shall labour for the birth of a new Africa, free and great among the nations of the world.

Some educated people disparage manual labour; they say it is too inferior for them; they appreciate "white collar-work." Such people are rather destructive than constructive to a nation's progress.

I am proud of my peasant origin. I am one with Mother Africa's dark soil. I am Africa's own child.

I am one with Africa. Look at my face; it is black like the soil of Africa.

As it is with individuals, so it is with nations. Each nation has its own peculiar unique character which no other nation in the world possesses or can possess. Each nation has thus its own peculiar talents and potentialities to develop and to realise.

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