We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
KWAME NKRUMAHI am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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The oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression.
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A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.
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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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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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The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
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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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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
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The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
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At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
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The struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the trends of economic developments.
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Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation.
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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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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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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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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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