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Kwame Nkrumah

In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
KWAME NKRUMAH

Direct Economic Outside Policy Political Reality System
The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
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Country Ghana Independence Liberation Meaningless
It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .
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Anybody Beter Else Free Govern Misgoverm Yourself
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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Community Country Dominion Economy Entire Hold Nation People Potentially Recognize Territory Together
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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Above Below Come Continue Country Earth Improvement Operate Predominantly Product
We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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East Faces Forward Neither West
In communal society, where there are virtually no class divisions, man’s productive activities on outlook and culture is less discernible. Account must be taken of the psychology of conflicting classes.
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Account Class Community Conflicting Culture Division Less Psychology Society Virtually
The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
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Apart Force Greater Influence Keep Superimpose Unite
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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Depth Height Judging Remember Started Success
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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Against Fortune Hand Imperialism Latin Struggle World
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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Challenge Courage Dare Envision Fight Trust
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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Easier Eye Giving Hump Need Pass Political Proverbial Territory
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.
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Concept Country Desire Moving Unity Want
I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
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Born Country Create Happen
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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Another Best Claim Freedom Gift Now People Something
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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Book Fire Literature Studied More Other Enthusuaim Philosophy Think

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