They too joined the noble chorus-free the political prisoners. We are here today to say thank you to you all and to the Swedish people that you insisted and persevered and by that insistence and perseverance succeeded to liberate some of us, so that we could rejoin our loved ones and our fellow fighters for freedom and so that we could see with our own eyes these human people, whose humanity demanded that they act to challenge the inhumanity which had condemned some of us to die in prison. We thank you God that you had the strength to fight on year in and year out. But your is not yet done. Those who have been released are but a few.
Thousands remain captives of Pretoria's jailers.
Only a few days ago, hundreds of these great patriots went on hunger strikes to demand their immediate and unconditional release. The message they send to you and to us that we must do all in our power to secure their release. Your voices need to be raised with even stronger vigour for the speedy accomplishment of this objective- the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners and detainees, including those who languish in the death cells of Pretoria central prison. Your grace, we are pleased to be here today because this gives us the rare opportunity to extend our profound gratitude to the church of Sweden itself. We know and are moved by the fact that among the first to sound the warning bells about the situation in South Africa were Swedish Men and Women of conscience who had served as missionaries among our people.