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.
KWAME NKRUMAHIn reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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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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We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!
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But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey published by his wife.
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Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge.
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At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
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Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism .
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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 masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
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Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
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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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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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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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