As we reflect on the most pressing issues facing us and the world today, we can take lesson from our global struggles for social justice. Taking the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa as an example, we can learn that change is possible and that to achieve true and lasting peace, as social activists we must go beyond our individual identities and embrace the spirit of Ubuntu, Ujamaa and other humanist values, where the idea of community is one of the building blocks of society. The struggle has taught us about the centrality of justice as a prerequisite for peace. It has taught us that our struggles are global and that we must reach out to one another across divides of class, race, ethnicity, gender, and geography. While the deep-seated culture of violence is proving difficult to uproot, confirming the adage that violence breeds violence, we should continue to oppose all wars and preparation for war. However, while always anti-military, our nonviolence must be ever-more militant, supporting revolutionary change in the face of oppression, through unarmed mass civil resistance and non-military means. The thread which ties spiritual and social liberation together as inseparable forces is tightly and colourfully woven through Ubuntu and Ujamaa, from Black Consciousness to Satyagraha, and beyond.