The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live

The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking; he is -- if I may coin an expression - 'communitary'.

A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor.

Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.

You cannot develop people. You must allow people to develop themselves.

Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.

If real development is to take place, the people have to be involved.