No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states. It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .

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.

But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey published by his wife.

At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!

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

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