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?
KWAME NKRUMAHIt is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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A challenge which calls for the courage to dream, the courage to believe, the courage to dare, the courage to do, the courage to envision, the courage to fight.
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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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Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism .
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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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The oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression.
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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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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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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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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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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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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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The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of 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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Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.
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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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In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
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Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
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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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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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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 masses of the people of Africa are crying for 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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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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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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