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.
KWAME NKRUMAHIt 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.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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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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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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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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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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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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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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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.
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There is a close connection between socio-political development.
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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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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 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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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
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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 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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The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
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