At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
KWAME NKRUMAHLong after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle erupts, be it in Africa, Asia or Latin America, the master-mind and master-hand at work are the same.
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Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution ought to be socialised if exploitation of the many by the few is to be prevented; if, that is to say, egalitarianism in the economy is to be protected.
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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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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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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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It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
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It 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.
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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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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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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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Africa is one continent, one people and one nation
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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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Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.
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