We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!
KWAME NKRUMAHThose who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity.
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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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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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But as a Great Power whose greatness is indestructible because it is built not on fear, envy and suspicion, nor won at the expense of others, but founded on hope, trust, friendship and directed to the good of all mankind.
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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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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
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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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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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The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
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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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It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
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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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Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation.
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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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