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.
KWAME NKRUMAHIt 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.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
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Africa is one continent, one people and one nation
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The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
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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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The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
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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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As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and Africa.
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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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Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation.
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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 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 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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The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be a common language, a common territory and common culture has failed to stand the test of time or the scrutiny of scientific definition of objective reality…
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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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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity.
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