“In so far as gaining citizenship rights and opportunities for the unfettered development of the African people, 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?”

— Albert Lutuli

The Road to Freedom is via the Cross (1952)

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South African politician 1898–1967

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