Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.

No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people.

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.

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

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.

African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.