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.
KWAME NKRUMAHWe face neither East nor West: we face forward.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
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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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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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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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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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It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
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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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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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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.
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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 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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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation.
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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity.
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