The struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the trends of economic developments.
KWAME NKRUMAHI am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
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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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The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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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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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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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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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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The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
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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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The oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression.
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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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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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Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
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