Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
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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Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.
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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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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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At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
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The community of economic life is the major feature within a nation, and it is the economy which holds together the people living in a territory. It is on this basis that the new Africans recognise themselves as potentially one nation, whose dominion is the entire African continent.
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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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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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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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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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The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
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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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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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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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Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
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