Let me conclude my address by asking you this question. We must join our national organisation, the African National Congress, where the true significance, purpose and probable disastrous outcome of Government policy would be explained to us by our own people who work for our liberation. Do not listen to propaganda of the Information Section of the Native Affairs Department. Develop in you the spirit of resisting anything that curbs or limits the development of your talents to their fullest capacity. Cultivate a sense of service and sacrifice without which Africans can never gain freedom.
Freedom comes only to people who are prepared to pay dearly for it.
The reference is to a conference in October 1954 which established the South African Trade Union Council.