The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
KWAME NKRUMAHIn 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.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation.
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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 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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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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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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The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
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The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
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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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There is a close connection between socio-political development.
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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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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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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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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity.
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