Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
KWAME NKRUMAHCountrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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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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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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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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Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
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Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism .
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The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
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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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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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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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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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Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa’s impoverishment.
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The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world.
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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 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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We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!
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