“How is it called freedom if it is limited by those with a history of oppressing you?”

“Find the words that cause reflection in you. That is where true learning begins.”

“Open all closed minds with the key to understanding.”

“He could almost hear the wail of pain that went up from his heart. It was a sharp terrible personal pain the kind of pain that comes only when someone to whom you have never done any harm turns on ...”

“Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.”

“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”

“Make a liberty without the instinctive duress.”

“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would...”

“The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majo...”

“Nigeria is one country, one people and one nation.”

“For a nation to be truly wealthy, it must possess a wealth of virtues.”

“If we want our nations to be truly great we must lay less emphasis on material wealth, natural resources or even human resources.”