Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.