"We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new Africa. Ours is a struggle for a continent and its people, who have been humiliated and degraded for centuries."

"The people of Africa are one and indivisible."

"The greatest contribution we can make to world peace is to unite Africa."

"We, in Africa, will evolve forms of government, rather different from the traditional Western pattern, but no less democratic in their protection of the individual and his inalienable rights."

"The strength of a nation is not in its military might but in the unity of its people."