I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
KWAME NKRUMAHWe 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.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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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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Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation.
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Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery .
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Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity.
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At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
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But as a Great Power whose greatness is indestructible because it is built not on fear, envy and suspicion, nor won at the expense of others, but founded on hope, trust, friendship and directed to the good of all mankind.
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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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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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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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The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
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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 forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
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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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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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