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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.

— Anton Lembede

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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.

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