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.
KWAME NKRUMAHThose who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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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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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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It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
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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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I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
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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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The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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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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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.
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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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There is a close connection between socio-political development.
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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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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 oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression.
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