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

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.

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.

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. Its essence is the realisation by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression - the blackness of their skin - and to operate as a group to rid themselves of the shackles that bind them to perpetual servitude.

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.