Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope.

Therefore, we must not look at the African people, even before they met whites, as if they had something unique, which was not to be found in other societies.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

In all disputes, a point is arrived at where no party, no matter how right or wrong it might have been at the start of that dispute, will any longer be totally in the right or totally in the wrong. Such a point I believe, has been reached in this debate... Let us not equivocate. A tragedy of unprecedented proportions is unfolding in Africa.