No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states.
KWAME NKRUMAHThe notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be a common language, a common territory and common culture has failed to stand the test of time or the scrutiny of scientific definition of objective reality…
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
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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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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
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We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!
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The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
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In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
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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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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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There is a close connection between socio-political development.
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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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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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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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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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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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