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“The road to freedom is via the cross.”
Source: Public statement "The Road to Freedom is via the Cross", Groutville, November 1952
Context The government had dismissed him as chief of the Groutville reserve for refusing to quit the ANC during the Defiance Campaign; he answered with this statement, issued by the ANC and Natal Indian Congress.
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