“Raise your head, my brother; the days of servitude are over.”

Gamal Abdel Nasser Egypt

“It is never shameful to be poor and to try to borrow to build my country… The shame is to suck the blood of peoples and suck away their rights.”

Gamal Abdel Nasser Egypt

“Today, citizens, we say: this is our money, returned to us. These are our rights, about which we kept silent, come back to us.”

Gamal Abdel Nasser Egypt

“Long battles lie ahead of us, so that we may live free, live with dignity, live with pride.”

Gamal Abdel Nasser Egypt

“I said, and I still say, that I bear the whole responsibility.”

Gamal Abdel Nasser Egypt

“It always seems impossible until it's done.”

Nelson Mandela South Africa

“Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa.”

Kwame Nkrumah Ghana

“It's true, you cannot kill ideas. Ideas do not die.”

Thomas Sankara Burkina Faso