The courage to work, the courage to achieve – to achieve the highest excellencies and the fullest greatness of man. Dare we ask for more in life?
KWAME NKRUMAHRevolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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In communal society, where there are virtually no class divisions, man’s productive activities on outlook and culture is less discernible. Account must be taken of the psychology of conflicting classes.
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Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism .
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Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.
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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
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The struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the trends of economic developments.
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No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states.
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The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
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Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa’s impoverishment.
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I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
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Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.
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The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be a common language, a common territory and common culture has failed to stand the test of time or the scrutiny of scientific definition of objective reality…
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It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated.
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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his mission, he claimed, was to “civilize” Africa. Under this cloak, the Europeans robbed the continent of vast riches and inflicted unimaginable suffering on the African people.
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