1. The history of the world is a chronicle of oppression.

2. Since oppression is maintained by force, it is only possible to remove that oppression by a counterforce.

3. The illegal regime in Lagos under Gowon has accused Biafra of playing politics with her people’s misery. Our answer is simple: “We do not play politics. We are not masochists; rather, we are a people who choose to hunger a little to remain alive instead of feeding fat to become respectable corpses.”

4. We do not ask for pity. We make no apologies for the social phenomenon known as the Biafran revolution; rather, we proclaim with pride the inevitability of our struggle, the indestructability of our people, and the assured finality of our success.

5. Biafra is a child of circumstance…His existence and survival are always a marvel, sometimes bordering on a miracle. His life is a tribute to man, his courage is his endurance, his ingenuity is his humanity.

6. For unity to be meaningful it has to be creative, not the unity of Jonah in the whale but the unity of holy matrimony. The first can only lead to defecation, the second to procreation.
ojukwu-biafra1

7. If a leader accepts himself as already dead to society, there will be no reason for cowardice in his leadership. One thing that frightens leaders and lead them to a number of excesses is usually fear of death. No leader should fear death. In fact, you should accept the fact that from the moment of leadership you are sacrificed to death. Each subsequent day becomes a bonus for the preparation of one’s memorial.

8. What I have become, in this struggle is the mouthpiece of my people. I go where they push and no more. The day I think otherwise, the day I act otherwise, that day my people, without compromising the struggle, will find another person to express their aspirations.

9. We are humans. We live. We fight, fight because the decision to be free is a decision taken freely and collectively, because to become involved in violent struggle for freedom is the only honor left to an oppressed people threatened with genocide, because in the final analysis the only true bulwark against death is to live. Biafra rejects death…Biafra lives

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tochukwuifeduba:
1. The history of the world is a chronicle of oppression.

2. Since oppression is maintained by force, it is only possible to remove that oppression by a counterforce.

3. The illegal regime in Lagos under Gowon has accused Biafra of playing politics with her people’s misery. Our answer is simple: “We do not play politics. We are not masochists; rather, we are a people who choose to hunger a little to remain alive instead of feeding fat to become respectable corpses.”

4. We do not ask for pity. We make no apologies for the social phenomenon known as the Biafran revolution; rather, we proclaim with pride the inevitability of our struggle, the indestructability of our people, and the assured finality of our success.

5. Biafra is a child of circumstance…His existence and survival are always a marvel, sometimes bordering on a miracle. His life is a tribute to man, his courage is his endurance, his ingenuity is his humanity.

6. For unity to be meaningful it has to be creative, not the unity of Jonah in the whale but the unity of holy matrimony. The first can only lead to defecation, the second to procreation.
ojukwu-biafra1

7. If a leader accepts himself as already dead to society, there will be no reason for cowardice in his leadership. One thing that frightens leaders and lead them to a number of excesses is usually fear of death. No leader should fear death. In fact, you should accept the fact that from the moment of leadership you are sacrificed to death. Each subsequent day becomes a bonus for the preparation of one’s memorial.

8. What I have become, in this struggle is the mouthpiece of my people. I go where they push and no more. The day I think otherwise, the day I act otherwise, that day my people, without compromising the struggle, will find another person to express their aspirations.

9. We are humans. We live. We fight, fight because the decision to be free is a decision taken freely and collectively, because to become involved in violent struggle for freedom is the only honor left to an oppressed people threatened with genocide, because in the final analysis the only true bulwark against death is to live. Biafra rejects death…Biafra lives

words of a wiseman.general of all generals.

Can an animal from the ZOO produce Awo's quotes?
Let me hear what that coward rat-poisoned fool has to say.

For unity to be meaningful it has to be creative, not the unity of Jonah in the whale but the unity of holy matrimony. The first can only lead to defecation, the second to procreation.
ojukwu-biafra1

ahaz:
words of a wiseman.general of all generals.

the only general that goes to the front with his soldiers,ojukwu is a field marshal.

Powerful quotes. I had already saved them. To be used as ammunition against the children of hate that force co-existence.

janus05:
For unity to be meaningful it has to be creative, not the unity of Jonah in the whale but the unity of holy matrimony. The first can only lead to defecation, the second to procreation.
ojukwu-biafra1

Damn Ikemba got me really thinking with these quotes, I really wish i met him personally, it would have been inspiring.

"...his manhood lives on".

IgboGoat:
Can an animal from the ZOO produce Awo's quotes?
Let me hear what that coward rat-poisoned fool has to say.

ojukwu's quotes are equal to mere rants. Quotes don't bring development, brain does.

A few of Awo's achievements...

*First skyscrapper in africa
*First TV station in africa(I heard we had it before france)
*free education that made his people sophisticated. He even educated the deltans and benins. That legacy made SW to be the region with the best primary, secondary and Universities, both public and private.
*cocoa export
*free medical service
*Liberty stadium(first in modern stadium in Nigeria)
*First industrial complex located in ikeja
*First commercial housing estate in Nigeria(ibadan and ikeja)


You can google for more.


What did ojukwu achieve other than lead his people to an already lost war where they got slaughter. The worst part is that he fled, abandoning them to their fate. It's so sad that you guys are celebrating mere quotes.

Yeebos be celebrating mediocrity since the tower of babel.

If only people from a certain region will take their time to digest quote no. 7, even a cow can now predict that no leader can emerge from that zone.

The only mistake ojukwu made was to run away..he could have just die in the war

This guy is a coward a big one at dat! And so many embittered, bigot yeebos Like OP would still rant and praise him despite the fact that he pushed their fathers to war and ran away when the heat was 100c.
It is quit disturbing you better read for your waec and stop radiating your ignorance on N/L @ least nairaland is not owned by an igbo neither is an igbo a stakeholder so pls save us the boring essays and cheer in silence.