Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

I'm not going to sit here and argue with you. Just PUT THE BLOODY METER ON.