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.
KWAME NKRUMAHWe have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!
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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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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity.
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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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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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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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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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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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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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It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated.
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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 oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression.
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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
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