"When I have control of Native Education, I will reform it so that the Natives will be taught from childhood to realise that equality with Europeans is not for them. People who believe in equality are not desirable teachers for Natives."
— Equality

January 1, 1970

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Hendrik Verwoerd, Speech, June 1954. Quoted in Phillip T. Gay, Modern South Africa, McGraw-Hill, 2001, and Baruch Hirson, Year of Fire, Year of Ash: The Soweto Schoolchildren’s Revolt that Shook Apartheid. Zed Books Ltd. 2016.