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.
KWAME NKRUMAHIt 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.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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There is a close connection between socio-political development.
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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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The struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the trends of economic developments.
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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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The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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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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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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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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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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Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism .
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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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The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
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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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Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation.
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No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states.
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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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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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All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation.
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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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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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It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .
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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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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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