It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.

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

The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.

It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated.

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.