We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

Africa is one continent, one people and one nation

Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution ought to be socialised if exploitation of the many by the few is to be prevented; if, that is to say, egalitarianism in the economy is to be protected.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!

Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.