Letters to My Mother Quotes

“He [Mosiuoa "Terror" Lekota] stressed that we had to build non-racialism - we couldn't just declare it and hope for the best. If we were to build a mass democratic movement, we would have to do the hard work of dismantling the barriers the apartheid system had put in place to keep us apart in separate townships, separate schools, separate hospitals”
― Kumi Naidoo, Letters to My Mother: The Making of a Troublemaker

“In 1983, the message of the ANC president Oliver Tambo emphasised the need for a broad united front in the struggle against apartheid.

He said: "We must organise the people into strong mass democratic organisations; we must organise all revolutionaries into underground units of the ANC; we must organise all combatants into units of uMkhonto we Sizwe; we must organise all democratic forces into one front for national liberation”
― Kumi Naidoo, Letters to My Mother: The Making of a Troublemaker

“Yet this brings home to me the crucial role that young people played in the struggle against apartheid. We were clear-sighted and idealistic, and we were unencumbered by the adult responsibilities that led many people to make compromises with the regime. Young people's hunger for justice made a decisive difference in South Africa's freedom struggle.”
― Kumi Naidoo, Letters to My Mother: The Making of a Troublemaker