Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.
KWAME NKRUMAHWe have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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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 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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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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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity.
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The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
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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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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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The oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression.
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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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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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But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey published by his wife.
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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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Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution ought to be socialised if exploitation of the many by the few is to be prevented; if, that is to say, egalitarianism in the economy is to be protected.
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Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa’s impoverishment.
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