There is a close connection between socio-political development.
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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Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
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Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge.
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A challenge which calls for the courage to dream, the courage to believe, the courage to dare, the courage to do, the courage to envision, the courage to fight.
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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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The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
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The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle erupts, be it in Africa, Asia or Latin America, the master-mind and master-hand at work are the same.
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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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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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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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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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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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I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
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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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At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
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The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty.
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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 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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In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
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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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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 face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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The oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression.
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Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism .
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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 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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