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.
KWAME NKRUMAHIt is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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The oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression.
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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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The 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…
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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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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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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 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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In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
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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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Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation.
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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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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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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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