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.
KWAME NKRUMAHNo people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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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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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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Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
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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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Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery .
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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 prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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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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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
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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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Long 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.
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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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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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In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
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