It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
KWAME NKRUMAHIt is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
KWAME NKRUMAHThe masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
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.
KWAME NKRUMAHCapitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
KWAME NKRUMAHThe independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
KWAME NKRUMAHSocialism 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 NKRUMAHthe innate respect for human lives, the intense humanity that is our heritage, the African race, united under one federal government, will emerge not as just another world bloc to flaunt its wealth and strength.
KWAME NKRUMAHThe 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.
KWAME NKRUMAHThose who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.
KWAME NKRUMAHIn 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 NKRUMAHIt is an objective which when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere. It will at the same time advance the triumph of the international socialist revolution.
KWAME NKRUMAHThe 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.
KWAME NKRUMAHInvestment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.
KWAME NKRUMAHIt is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .
KWAME NKRUMAHBut as a Great Power whose greatness is indestructible because it is built not on fear, envy and suspicion, nor won at the expense of others, but founded on hope, trust, friendship and directed to the good of all mankind.
KWAME NKRUMAHA 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.
KWAME NKRUMAH