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

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.

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

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.

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

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

There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the trends of economic developments. In communal society, where there are virtually no class divisions, man's productive activities on outlook and culture is less discernible. Account must be taken of the psychology of conflicting classes.