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It is inevitable that in working for freedom some people may have to suffer. If you are not ready for that, you do not deserve freedom.

— Albert Luthuli

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It is not merely our freedom that is at stake, but yours as well.

We in South Africa are part of the world, and not apart from it.

The task before us is not the emancipation of the African alone, but the emancipation of all humanity from the hatred and fear that divide people from one another.

Who could deny that much of the present bitterness between the races in South Africa stems from the uncompromising white refusal to accept the African as a fellow human being?

My own urge is to persuade the South African government, by taking a supreme risk, to make a human issue rather than a racial one of the immense problems facing our country.

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