We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
KWAME NKRUMAHWe face neither East nor West: we face forward.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.
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Africa is one continent, one people and one nation
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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But as a Great Power whose greatness is indestructible because it is built not on fear, envy and suspicion, nor won at the expense of others, but founded on hope, trust, friendship and directed to the good of all mankind.
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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity.
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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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In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
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