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.
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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Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.
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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 fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle erupts, be it in Africa, Asia or Latin America, the master-mind and master-hand at work are the same.
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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 struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the trends of economic developments.
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Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation.
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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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the 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.
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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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Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
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In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity.
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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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Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.
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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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But 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.
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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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It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African 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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The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
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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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Africa is one continent, one people and one nation
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The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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