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born 1945 South Africa

Nyameko Barney Pityana FKC GCOB (born 7 August 1945) is a human rights lawyer and theologian in South Africa. He is an exponent of Black theology

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We have become an aggressively filthy, selfish, individualistic and greedy society that cares only for itself and its own.

South Africans are almost depressed about their condition at the moment.

The struggle was fundamentally about restoring the dignity of the oppressed.

The struggle against apartheid was a moral project.

Black Consciousness was never about hatred of white people. It was about the affirmation of black humanity.

Black Consciousness was about restoring the humanity of black people.

We must reclaim our freedom... We must shape and give meaning to our freedom because nobody else will.

We are a nation in despair... We are, in every way you would like to think about, a broken society.

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