“We face neither East nor West: we face forward.” — Kwame Nkrumah Quote

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career.

We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.

I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.