We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
KWAME NKRUMAHAs 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.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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There is a close connection between socio-political development.
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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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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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The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
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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 best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
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It is an objective which when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere. It will at the same time advance the triumph of the international socialist revolution.
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Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge.
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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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I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
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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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The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
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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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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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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
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