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Sékou Touré Quotes

1922–1984

Sékou Touré (var. Sheku Turay or Ture; N'Ko: ߛߋߞߎ߬ ߕߎ߬ߙߋ; 9 January 1922 – 26 March 1984) was a Guinean political leader and African statesman who was the first president of Guinea from 1958 until his death in 1984.

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We prefer freedom in poverty to opulence in slavery.

Science has no homeland, but the scientist has one, and it is to that homeland that he must dedicate his knowledge.

Every free and sovereign people finds itself placed in conditions more favourable to the expression of its cultural values than a colonized country...

The revolution is not a matter of a single day, nor is it the task of one man; it is a permanent creation

"And if you fashion it [the revolution] with the people, the songs will come by themselves and of themselves

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sékou Touré (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.