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.
KWAME NKRUMAHBut as a Great Power whose greatness is indestructible because it is built not on fear, envy and suspicion, nor won at the expense of others, but founded on hope, trust, friendship and directed to the good of all mankind.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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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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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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It is an objective which when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere. It will at the same time advance the triumph of the international socialist revolution.
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We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.
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At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
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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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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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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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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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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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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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Africa is one continent, one people and one nation
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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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The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
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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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