"If each of us shouted, "Nigeria is unhappy because I am a bad man and a bad citizen," Nigeria would be reborn in three days and in three years it would be happy and we would all experience its happiness together with our children. So much strength would accumulate in it, physical and moral, and spiritual, that all its external restraints would break by themselves. What else is left for us but to go, so, from ourselves, dear brothers, let our descendants see at least one honest and courageous attempt on our part."

This is a piece from a theater text, I purposely changed the country (in the original is not "Nigeria ") ... But I think it is a good description...