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.
KWAME NKRUMAHFor centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world.
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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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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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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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At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
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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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The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
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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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We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!
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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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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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Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people
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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
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