In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
KWAME NKRUMAHA 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.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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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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Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge.
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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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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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The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
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Africa is one continent, one people and one nation
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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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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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Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism .
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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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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 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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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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Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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