UN General Assembly
1968

33. This is the place and the moment, particularly at the end of this decade of accepted responsibilities, of active sovereignty, of tried and proved liberty, to state the complete determination of the Guinean people, which has never shunned and which never will shun any sacrifice on the altar of African freedom and dignity, always to be in the vanguard of the struggle for a better future for our continent. 34. Thanks to our undisputed leader President Ahmed Sékou Touré, the supreme leader of the Guinean revolution, on 28 September our whole people gave brilliant proof, despite all colonialist theory, that any people that have been ideologically trained — African peoples as well as others — is always fit to control its own affairs at any moment in its history, no matter how difficult the conditions in which it finds itself.