It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .
KWAME NKRUMAHThe 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 oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression.
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It is an objective which when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere. It will at the same time advance the triumph of the international socialist revolution.
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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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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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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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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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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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Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.
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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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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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But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey published by his wife.
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We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!
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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 forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
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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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