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1924–1978
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe OMSG (5 December, 1924 – 27 February, 1978) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and founding member of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), serving as the first president of the organization.
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The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle.
The Africanists take the view that there is only one race to which we all belong, and that is the human race.
We are fighting for the right of self-determination for the African people.
Here is a tree rooted in African soil, nourished with waters from the rivers of Africa.
We are ready to die for our freedom, but we are not prepared to kill for it.
The government has resorted to increasingly harsh measures in a desperate attempt to crush the struggle for freedom.
These things shall be, says the Psalmist: Africa will be free. The wheel of progress revolves relentlessly…
We do not form ourselves into an anti-white front. We breathe no hatred against any group of people.
Let me plead with you, lovers of my Africa, to carry with you into the world the vision of a new Africa…
We aim, politically, at government of the Africans by the Africans for the Africans, with everybody who owes his only loyalty to Africa and who is prepared to accept the democratic rule of an African majority being regarded as an African.
The press did not make us, the press cannot break us.
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