Gamal Abdel Nasser
“We’re a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.”
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Ahmed Ben Bella
“In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.”
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Thomas Sankara
“If we maintain a certain amount of caution and organization we deserve victory….You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future.”
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Muammar al-Gaddafi
“I shall continue to insist that our sovereign countries work to achieve the United States of Africa.”
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Julius Nyerere
“African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism”
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Robert Mugabe
“The land is ours. It’s not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people… Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality”
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Patrice Lumumba
“Africa will write its own history, and it will be, to the north and to the south of the Sahara, a history of glory and dignity.”
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Robert Sobukwe
“We are fighting for the noblest cause on earth, the liberation of mankind….there is only one race, the human race. Multi-racialism is racism multiplied.”
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Kwame Nkrumah
“Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.”
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