The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
KWAME NKRUMAHThe 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?
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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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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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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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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The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
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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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The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world.
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The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his mission, he claimed, was to “civilize” Africa. Under this cloak, the Europeans robbed the continent of vast riches and inflicted unimaginable suffering on the African people.
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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 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 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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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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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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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
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There is a close connection between socio-political development.
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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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