It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .
KWAME NKRUMAHIt is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge.
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The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be a common language, a common territory and common culture has failed to stand the test of time or the scrutiny of scientific definition of objective reality…
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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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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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Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
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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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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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It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
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Africa is one continent, one people and one nation
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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 oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression.
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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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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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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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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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