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In so far as gaining citizenship rights and opportunities for the unfettered development of the African people, who will deny that thirty years of my life have been spent knocking in vain, patiently, moderately and modestly at a closed and barred door?

— Albert Lutuli The Road to Freedom is via the Cross (1952)

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"I came that they might have life and have it more abundantly."

Africa and Freedom, Nobel Lecture (1961)

I do not hate the white man; you see, his position of domination has placed him in a position of moral weakness.

Guy Arnold (1976)

"God will provide." It is inevitable that in working for Freedom some individuals and some families must take the lead and suffer: The Road to Freedom is via the CROSS.

The Road to Freedom is via the Cross (1952)

To remain neutral in a situation where the laws of the land virtually criticized God for having created men of color was the sort of thing I could not, as a Christian, tolerate.

Africa and Freedom, Nobel Lecture (1961)

I have joined my people in the new spirit that moves them today, the spirit that revolts openly and boldly against injustice and expresses itself in a determined and non-violent manner.

The Road to Freedom is via the Cross (1952)

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