The struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the trends of economic developments.
KWAME NKRUMAHThe oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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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 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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There is a close connection between socio-political development.
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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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I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
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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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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.
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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 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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Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism .
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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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No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states.
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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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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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