The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
KWAME NKRUMAHWe face neither East nor West: we face forward.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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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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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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It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .
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Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
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The oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression.
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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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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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The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world.
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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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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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Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation.
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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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At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
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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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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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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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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 face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
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Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism .
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