It is an objective which when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere. It will at the same time advance the triumph of the international socialist revolution.
KWAME NKRUMAHWe prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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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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No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states.
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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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All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation.
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At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
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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 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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The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
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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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the innate respect for human lives, the intense humanity that is our heritage, the African race, united under one federal government, will emerge not as just another world bloc to flaunt its wealth and strength.
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I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
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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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Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
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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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