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

— Barney Pityana

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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.

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