No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states.
KWAME NKRUMAHThe oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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The courage to work, the courage to achieve – to achieve the highest excellencies and the fullest greatness of man. Dare we ask for more in life?
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It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated.
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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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In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
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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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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.
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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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A 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.
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Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
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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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Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation.
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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
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Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery .
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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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