Zambia shall be Free

 Zambia Shall  be Free   (First  published 1962)  is a political autobiography by Zambia's first president Kenneth Kaunda published as part of the Heinemann African Writers Series.The biography is a critique of colonial rule, and the power of democracy in liberating the varied people ruled in the new Zambia.

Quotes

 * 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
 * Page 41.


 * African are people not cattle  to be herded together  and driven here and there.
 * Page 59.


 * 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.
 * Page 68.


 * 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.
 * Page 115


 * Nothing can be achieved  anywhere  and in any field  without good Organization.
 * Page 152.


 * 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.
 * Page 134.


 * 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.
 * Page 152.


 * 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.
 * Page160.


 * 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!
 * Page 160.