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The A.N.C. is a national movement. We all - Communists and non-Communists alike - want a nonracial, democratic, united South Africa.

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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.

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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.

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There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

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The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.

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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.

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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.

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The apartheid system renounces no violence.

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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.

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I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Politician

Born: October 27th, 1917

Died: April 24th, 1993

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