No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states.
KWAME NKRUMAHAt long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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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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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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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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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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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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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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Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism .
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Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
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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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Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.
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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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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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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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At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
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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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