Pixley ka Isaka Seme Quotes
1881–1951 South Africa
Pixley ka Isaka Seme OLS (c. 1881 – June 1951) was a South African lawyer and a founder and President of the African National Congress.
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The regeneration of Africa means that a new and unique civilisation is soon to be added to the world.
The day of great African kingdoms has passed away, but the spirit of the African people remains unconquered.
The most essential departure of this new civilisation is that it shall be thoroughly spiritual and humanistic—indeed a regeneration moral and eternal.
The African people, although not a strictly homogeneous race, possess a common fundamental sentiment which is everywhere manifest, crystallising itself into one common controlling idea.
The white people of this country have formed what is known as the Union of South Africa—a union in which we have no voice in the making of laws and no part in their administration.
We have called you to this conference so that we can together devise ways and means of forming our national union for the purpose of creating national unity and defending our rights and privileges.
The African is not a proletarian in the world of science and art: he has precious creations of his own, of ivory, of copper and of gold, fine plaited willow-ware, and weapons of superior workmanship.
We are one people. These divisions, these jealousies, are the cause of all our woes and of all our backwardness and ignorance today.
The demon of racialism, the aberration of the Xhosa-Fingo feud, the animosity that exists between the Zulus and the Tongas, between the Basutos and every other native must be buried and forgotten. We are one people.
The brighter day is rising upon Africa. Already I seem to see her chains dissolved, her desert plains red with harvest, her Abyssinia and her Zululand the seats of science and religion, reflecting the glory of the rising sun.