Albert LutuliHSRC Press, 1993 - 167页 The first in the series, this powerful book provides insight into the personality and mind of one of South Africa's first Noble Prizewinners. Luthuli was a man with a vision - a vision that encompassed people of all races and beliefs in Southern Africa. |
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achievement action Adams College African National Congress Alan Paton Albert Lutuli ANC's apartheid apartheid laws areas banned Bantu Authorities believe black South Africans brotherhood Cape cause Chief Albert chieftainship Christian civil CK Reel 11A colour Communist concerned conference Defiance Campaign democracy Durban economic elected Europeans fact farms fight franchise Freedom Charter groups Groutville human Indian Congress Interview with Lutuli Johannesburg June 26 Karis-Carter Collection Kliptown labour land leaders leadership liberation movement live lords LP Reel Mayibuye militant morgen Moroka multiracial Natal National Party Nationalist Ngubane non-Europeans non-racial non-violent non-whites Oliver Tambo opposed oppression organizations parliament peace political president protest Province race racial reserves Rivonia Trial society South Africa speech spirit stand struggle must go traditional Treason Trial Union of South violent vision vote Walter Sisulu white South Africans white supremacy Zulu
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第144页 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
第47页 - 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? What have been the fruits of moderation? The past thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws restricting our rights and progress, until today we have reached a stage where we have almost no rights at all.
第131页 - ... declaration of solidarity with those who fight to widen the area of liberty in my part of the world. As such, it is the sort of gesture which gives me, and millions who think as I do, tremendous encouragement. There are still people in the world today who regard South Africa's race problem as a simple clash between Black and White. Our Government has carefully projected this image of the problem before the eyes of the world. This has had two effects. It has confused the real issues at stake in...
第133页 - ... living standards — the golden age for which men have striven for generations. Your age of revolution, stretching across all the years from the eighteenth century to our own, encompassed some of the bloodiest civil wars in all history. By comparison, the African revolution has swept across three-quarters of the continent in less than a decade; its final completion is within sight of our own generation. Again, by comparison with Europe, our African revolution — to our credit — is proving...
第135页 - It is a museum piece in our time, a hangover from the dark past of mankind, a relic of an age which everywhere else is dead or dying.
第145页 - In a strife-torn world, tottering on the brink of complete destruction by man-made nuclear weapons, a free and independent Africa is in the making, in answer to the injunction and challenge of history: "Arise and shine for thy light is come." Acting in concert with other nations, she is man's last hope for a mediator between the East and West, and is qualified to demand of the great powers to "turn the swords into plough-shares...
第133页 - ... reclaiming their land, their right to participate in government, their dignity as men, their nationhood. Thus, in the turmoil of revolution, the basis for peace and brotherhood in Africa is being restored by the resurrection of national sovereignty and independence, of equality and the dignity of man. It should not be difficult for you here in Europe to appreciate this. Your continent passed through a longer series of revolutionary upheavals, in which your age of feudal backwardness gave way...
第134页 - How great is the paradox and how much greater the honour that an Award in support of peace and the brotherhood of man should come to one who is a citizen of a country where the brotherhood of man is an illegal doctrine, outlawed, banned, censured, proscribed and prohibited; where to work, talk or campaign for the realization in fact and deed of the brotherhood of man is hazardous, punished with banishment, or confinement without trial, or imprisonment; where effective democratic channels to peaceful...
第48页 - 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.
第49页 - Laws and conditions that tend to debase human personality —a God-given force— be they brought about by the State or other individuals, must be relentlessly opposed in the spirit of defiance shown by St. Peter when he said to the rulers of his day: "Shall we obey God or man?