“We must unite now or perish.”
“We face neither East nor West: we face forward.”
“Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.”
“We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.”
“It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else.”
“We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!”
“The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.”
“Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.”
“Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.”
“Seek ye first the political kingdom and all things shall be added unto you. Seek only to be employed and all other things shall be taken away from you.”