the innate respect for human lives, the intense humanity that is our heritage, the African race, united under one federal government, will emerge not as just another world bloc to flaunt its wealth and strength.
KWAME NKRUMAHWe face neither East nor West: we face forward.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
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Africa is one continent, one people and one nation
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It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity.
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The courage to work, the courage to achieve – to achieve the highest excellencies and the fullest greatness of man. Dare we ask for more in life?
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The struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the trends of economic developments.
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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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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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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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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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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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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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In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
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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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The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
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