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“We have the blessing of wealth of our vast resources, the power of our talents and the potentialities of our people, let us grasp now the opportunities before us and meet the challenge to our survival.”

“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically … No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”

“The reason why lions hunt successfully as a pride, is reason enough for Africans to unite.”

“If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.”

“Where there has been racial hatred, it must be ended. Where there has been tribal animosity, it will be finished. Let us not dwell upon the bitterness of the past. I would rather look to the future, to the good new Kenya, not to the bad old days. If we can create this sense of national direction and identity, we shall have gone a long way to solving our economic problems.”

“Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African people to be disregarded and humiliated, and it will, therefore, increase the effectiveness of the decisions we make and try to implement for our development. My generation led Africa to political freedom. The current generation of leaders and people of Africa must pick up the flickering torch of Africa freedom, refuel it with their enthusiasm and determination, and carry it forward.”

“I have no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.”

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”