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.
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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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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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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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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There is a close connection between socio-political development.
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The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
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Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.
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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 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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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 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.
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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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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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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.
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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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Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
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