There is slowly arising not only a curiously strong brotherhood of Negro blood throughout the world…W. E. B. Du Bois
We may say truthfully that Negros have been among the leaders of civilisation in every age of the world’s historyW. E. B. Du Bois
When once the blacks of the United States, the West Indies, and Africa work and think together, the future of the black man in the world is safeW. E. B. Du Bois
We demand full self-determination not as an end in itself – for we are not narrow nationalists…George Padmore
There is not enough food on our side of the fence – one [South African] child in three dies from malnutritionAlbert Luthuli
We don’t want to have anything to do with any bloc; the Congo will never be French, Russian, or AmericanPatrice Lumumba