It Is Far Better To Be Free

Long Before Many Of Us Were Even Conscious Of Our Own Degradation, These Men [marcus Garvey And W. E. B. Dubois] Fought For African National And Racial Equality.

No People Without A Government Of Their Own Can Expect To Be Treated On The Same Level As People Of Independent Sovereign States. It Is Far Better To Be Free To Govern Or Misgovern Yourself Than To Be Governed By Anybody Else . . .

Africa Is One Continent, One People, And One Nation. The Notion That In Order To Have A Nation It Is Necessary For There To Be A Common Language, A Common Territory And Common Culture Has Failed To Stand The Test Of Time Or The Scrutiny Of Scientific Definition Of Objective Reality... The Community Of Economic Life Is The Major Feature Within A Nation, And It Is The Economy Which Holds Together The People Living In A Territory. It Is On This Basis That The New Africans Recognise Themselves As Potentially One Nation, Whose Dominion Is The Entire African Continent.

As Far As I Am Concerned, I Am In The Knowledge That Death Can Never Extinguish The Torch Which I Have Lit In Ghana And Africa. Long After I Am Dead And Gone, The Light Will Continue To Burn And Be Borne Aloft, Giving Light And Guidance To All People

The Fortunes Of The African Revolution Are Closely Linked With The World-wide Struggle Against Imperialism. It Does Not Matter Where The Battle Erupts, Be It In Africa, Asia Or Latin America, The Master-mind And Master-hand At Work Are The Same. The Oppressed And Exploited People Are Striving For Their Freedom Against Exploitation And Suppression. Ghana Must Not, Ghana Cannot Be Neutral In The Struggle Of The Oppressed Against The Oppressor.