If you wish to become a person useful to the nation, first of all, try to thoroughly study and understand the land policy of the Russian government in our ancestral homeland. This policy itself will show you what needs to be done.

We certainly aim to separate our ancestral homeland Turkestan once and for all from Soviet Russia and from any other Russia. This is our national ideal, our national dream and aspiration. We serve only this idea. We will make every effort to unite all our national forces inside and outside our homeland around this idea.

Is national independence possible without national spirit? History has neither seen nor known such a thing. National freedom is the result of national spirit. And national spirit itself grows, develops, and bears fruit only within the framework of national freedom and independence.

The foundation of national spirit is the national language.

We cannot remain slaves. We will achieve our national freedom.

Every person who matures may recall their childhood, but does not wish to return to it.

First and foremost, let us strengthen our own ranks and the unity of Turkestan. Let us act together by organizing a powerful force against Russian imperialism, closely coordinating the tightly united national front of Turkestan with the national fronts of other peoples struggling to break away from Russia. Let us not discriminate against those fighting Russian imperialism based on nationality, religion, race, or political affiliation. Only such a path can lead us to national liberation… All other paths are deceptive and dead ends… Only the peoples who can strengthen their internal unity can achieve independence. And they can protect it as well.

Brothers, there is no such nation as Kipchak; there is a nation called Kazakh. If every one of us separates and becomes the leader of the Kipchak, the Argyn, the Uysun, our people will perish.

A passport does not grant “nationality,” nor can it change one’s nationality. A passport only certifies that its holder is dependent on the government that issued it.

I constantly think about returning to my homeland and strive to achieve it. This means I fight to save my ancestral land.

The Soviet national policy crushed us with its “hammer” and cut us down with its “sickle.”

You Germans consider yourselves “the most cultured people in Europe.” If your culture is what I have witnessed, then I wish you to see the suffering endured by the prisoners. Living in the 20th century, you have surpassed even the cruelty of Genghis Khan in the 13th century. You have no right to call yourselves a cultured people. If, because of these words, you sentence me to “shooting” or “hanging,” I have no objection. Better to die than live in such a so-called cultured society.

We, supporters of Turkestan’s independence, fight for the freedom of our land and for freeing our people of Turkestan from bondage. Turkestanis have never had any other path. There is none now, and never will be… Our aspiration is to achieve a state structure in Turkestan that is national both in form and content. Only then can our people become true masters of their land.

How did it happen that some feel ashamed to be proud of being Kazakh, or consider speaking the Kazakh language embarrassing? Why do you not see that many of our children are growing up neither Kazakh nor Russian, but as some kind of incoherent mixture?

Only peoples who can strengthen their internal unity can achieve independence and preserve it.

The aspiration for national freedom and liberation is like a natural law that cannot be avoided.

We rely on national ideals that stand higher than individual personalities.

From a general moral and philosophical standpoint, there is no such notion as a good people or a bad people. Nor can there be.

History is merciless. It spares neither scholars nor experts, neither artists nor kings and emperors. It crushes all who go against its laws. The laws of history know no turning back, nor do they accept it.

To love the ancestral land means to serve its collective interests, and always be ready to serve it, even to sacrifice one’s life if necessary.

National interest is not the sum of the interests of individual groups.

What we sincerely and eagerly await is only one thing — the liberation of our homeland from the dictatorship of the Russian proletariat. We call upon all our compatriots to unite as one soul, one body on the path toward this national ideal.

Only those who can sacrifice their dependence in favor of a system compatible with the general national interest and the overall condition of the nation can be true national patriots and beneficial servants of the nation.

In the struggle against cotton, arm yourself with wheat. The first step toward liberation from foreign domination is liberation from dependence on foreign grain.

Even if our struggle for the national rights of our homeland sometimes steps beyond the “boundaries of democracy,” no one has the right to accuse us of chauvinism.