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.
KWAME NKRUMAHIn reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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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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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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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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The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
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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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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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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
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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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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
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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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It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
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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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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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