The African National Congress refuses to submit to the ban imposed on it by the Parliament of the Union of South Africa. We shall carry on our fight of the past half century for the rights and freedom of the African people. We shall continue our struggle for which we pledged ourselves to all the democratic demands of the Freedom Charter. We shall continue to work Underground until the unjust and immoral ban suppressing the A.N.C. has been repealed.
From: Thomas Karis and Gwendolen M. Carter (ed.) From Protest to Challenge; A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964, Volume 3, page 574.