The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
KWAME NKRUMAHThe oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression.
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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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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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Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation.
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In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
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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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Africa is one continent, one people and one nation
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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle’s eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
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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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Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
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Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism .
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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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Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
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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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The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
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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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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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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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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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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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Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.
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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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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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Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.
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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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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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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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