Excerpts from Chief Luthuli’s evidence at the treason trial dealing with his understanding of a non-violent liberation struggle
… point of view among different members, but as far as the congress is concerned, in the circumstances that obtain … to the use of violence because I think it would be almost national suicide, in the circumstances as they are. And quite … is this, that it is a policy, a basic policy of the African National Congress. Now, in theory, who could change …