It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .
KWAME NKRUMAHThe 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.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
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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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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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Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people
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Africa is one continent, one people and one nation
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All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation.
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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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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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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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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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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity.
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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle’s eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
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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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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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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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