It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity.
KWAME NKRUMAHLong 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.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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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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It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
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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 traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
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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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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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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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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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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty.
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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 masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
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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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Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery .
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