Kenneth Kaunda Quotes

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is a great force leading to change.

For a long time, I have led my people in the shouts of KWACHA (the dawn). We have been shouting it in the darkness, now there is the Grey light of dawn on the horizon and I know that Zambia Shall be Free!

I would ask which was more important, to prepare someone meals and beds or to share them? Was it not common sense that the person who prepare your meals and made your bed and looked after you was controlling your life? How stupid it was for everyone to say you may control my life but I will not sit at the same table with you because you are stinking or because you are black

African are people not cattle to be herded together and driven here and there.

The Whiteman lords it over us in all walks of life not because he happens to be white but because he is better organized than we are, that is his secret.

Nothing can be achieved anywhere and in any field without good Organization.

Some of these Salisbury prisoners used to say plainly that they were better off where they were than outside. They would argue they could never hope to find work, they could be harassed by the Police for passes, tax receipts and many other things. A society that drives some of its citizens to think that way is rotten and needs burying.

If you drive an animal into a corner and torment it, you may expect that in it's fear and rage it will slash back at you.

If the Government cannot without demoralizing so badly it's own people, then that government is no good and it must give way to people who can.

When people understand a cause, become prepared to suffer for that cause and see glory and honour in such suffering, it is indeed just impossible to suppress them or the cause they stand for.

People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.