Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
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.
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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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The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
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In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
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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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But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey published by his wife.
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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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The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
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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 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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The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
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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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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity.
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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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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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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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