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.
KWAME NKRUMAHThe best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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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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A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.
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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
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The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be a common language, a common territory and common culture has failed to stand the test of time or the scrutiny of scientific definition of objective reality…
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At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
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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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The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
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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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Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.
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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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It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity.
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