“It may be true chronologically, I may be justly called an old man – but I am an old man whose visions are as fresh as the day when I first conceived the idea that we, the descendants of slaves and semi-slaves, could become a free people – a people free to pursue our dreams and to grow both in the individual as well as the national sense – and I promise you here today that I will spend whatever years, I mean them to be long years that remain to me in trying to create a situation where the dreams of every Guyanese can be converted to reality – once they pursue those dreams without trampling on the rights and dignity of others.”
Oct 5, 1996