It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle’s eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
KWAME NKRUMAHAll 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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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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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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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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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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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity.
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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?
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Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.
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Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery .
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The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world.
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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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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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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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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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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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