Freedom is a hard-bought thing.

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

Freedom is a hard-bought thing.

Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.