"It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else."

"I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me."

"There is no such thing as a small independent state in Africa. We are either united or we are nothing."

"Our independence is not an end in itself, but a means to an end: the total liberation and unification of Africa."

"If by their fruits we shall know them, they must first grow the fruits."