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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

— Harold Wilson Prime Minister (1964)

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This party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

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Overseas anti-democratic forces have conspired for years to undermine the political position of individuals and parties who have opposed apartheid.

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