Activists against violence, like many other civil rights leaders during the 20th century, held the belief that nonviolent civil disobedience and protest was the best way to end oppression.
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Archbishop Desmond Tutu invoked this belief in a 1984 speech where he said that people needed to remember that white South Africans are God’s people as well and that violence was not the answer to ending Apartheid (Doc. 7). Many other activists held that nonviolent methods were the only valid way to protest Apartheid. Thus, the anti-Apartheid movement expressed discontent in many ways such as peaceful rallies, art and music, and raising international awareness. One example of nonviolent resistance to Apartheid was Steve Biko’s