YUSUF MOHAMMED DADOO

It must not be forgotten that the Indian people are sons and daughters of a country with a proud and cultured heritage. Their ancient motherland is the bearer of a tradition of civilisation as old as any in the world. Never, either in India or [in] South Africa, have Indians willingly submitted to laws and practices which brand them as inferior, or curtail their liberties. On innumerable occasions, measures have been taken which discriminated against Indians in South Africa; beginning with a humiliating law to segregate Indians passed by the Transvaal Republic in 1885, and the Natal law of 1896 which deprived Indian citizens of the Parliamentary franchise. Always the Indian people of our country have resisted these measures. It was indeed in South Africa that the method of Passive Resistance was born---a means of struggle since adopted by the people of India itself.

- Yusuf Dadoo, Facts About The Ghetto Act (pamphlet), 1946.