Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
KWAME NKRUMAHThe total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
-
-
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 NKRUMAH -
The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
KWAME NKRUMAH -
Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.
KWAME NKRUMAH -
We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
KWAME NKRUMAH -
No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states.
KWAME NKRUMAH -
Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.
KWAME NKRUMAH -
It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .
KWAME NKRUMAH -
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.
KWAME NKRUMAH -
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 NKRUMAH -
We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
KWAME NKRUMAH -
Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery .
KWAME NKRUMAH -
Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation.
KWAME NKRUMAH -
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.
KWAME NKRUMAH -
In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
KWAME NKRUMAH -
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.
KWAME NKRUMAH