It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .
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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Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation.
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The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
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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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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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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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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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The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
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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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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity.
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The oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression.
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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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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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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 independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
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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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At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
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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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Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.
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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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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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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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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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A challenge which calls for the courage to dream, the courage to believe, the courage to dare, the courage to do, the courage to envision, the courage to fight.
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