“The process in fact may take well over 20 years of dialogue between blacks and whites. We certainly don’t envisage failure. We certainly don’t have an alternative. We have analyzed history. We believe that history moves in a particular logical direction, and in this particular instance the logical direction is that eventually any white society in this country is going to have to accommodate black thinking.” “I don’t believe that whites will be deaf all the time. We must believe that this is, you know, a last ditch stand so to speak. There are signs right now of Mr Voster going to Mr Smith to face issues. Inevitably he must know in his own mind that at some stage I must speak to everybody. Okay, but for the moment it is only a plan dismissed. Even the whole idea of bantustans being given freedom, this is a way of accommodating political aspirations of the people which is an inevitable accommodation of what the blacks want eventually. BUT, WE REJECT THIS, WHAT WE WANT IS A TOTAL ACCOMMODATION OF OUR INTERESTS IN THE TOTAL COUNTRY, NOT SOME PORTION OF IT. So we don’t have a side program, we don’t have any alternative. We believe that ultimately in the righteousness of our strength, that we are going to get to the eventual accommodation of our interests within the country” - Steve Biko
Posted on: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 12:18:42 +0000
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