It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .
KWAME NKRUMAHThe forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
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All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation.
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Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution ought to be socialised if exploitation of the many by the few is to be prevented; if, that is to say, egalitarianism in the economy is to be protected.
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The community of economic life is the major feature within a nation, and it is the economy which holds together the people living in a territory. It is on this basis that the new Africans recognise themselves as potentially one nation, whose dominion is the entire 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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The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
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Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people
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As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and Africa.
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We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.
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The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
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Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation.
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The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty.
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Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
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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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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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I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
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A challenge which calls for the courage to dream, the courage to believe, the courage to dare, the courage to do, the courage to envision, the courage to fight.
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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
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The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world.
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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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The oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression.
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It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity.
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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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Africa is one continent, one people and one nation
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