...servile position he had occupied on the far, of his father, and his father's father who were born black, lived like blacks, and died like mules. - Richard Rivera

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...servile position he had occupied on the far, of his father, and his father's father who were born black, lived like blacks, and died like mules.

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Richard Moore Rive (1 March 1931 – 4 June 1989) was a South African writer and academic, who was from Cape Town.

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[A] society that condemns a man to an inferior position because he has the misfortune to be born black, a society that can only retain its precarious social and economic position at the expense of an enormous oppressed mass.
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It is up to us to challenge the right of any group who willfully and deliberately condemn a fellow group to a servile position. We must challenge the right of any people who see fit to segregate human beings solely on grounds of pigmentation.
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