We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth. These are concepts which the Black Consciousness approach wishes to eradicate from the black man's mind before our society is driven to chaos by irresponsible people from Coca-cola and hamburger cultural backgrounds.

The oneness of community for instance is at the heart of our culture.

We believe it is the duty of the vanguard political movement which brings change to educate people's outlook

I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.

WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence