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Agriculture is of primordial significance in the progress of a nation.

— Anton Lembede

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I live for the freedom of my people, and I shall die for Africa's freedom.

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.

I am one with Africa. Look at my face; it is black like the soil of Africa.

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