Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, these men [Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois] fought for African national and racial equality.
KWAME NKRUMAHHer 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.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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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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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
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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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Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
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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 best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
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Africa is one continent, one people and one nation
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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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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
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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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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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