Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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Capitalism is too complicated a system for a newly independent nation. Hence the need for a socialistic society.
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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
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We in Ghana, are committed to the building of an industrialized socialist society. We cannot afford to sit still and be mere passive onlookers. We must ourselves take part in the pursuit of scientific and technological research as a means of providing the basis for our socialist society, Socialism without science is void. …
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The critical study of the philosophies of the past should lead to the study of modern theories. For these latter, born of the fire of contemporary struggles, are militant and alive.
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The independence of Ghana is meaningless until it is linked to the total liberation of Africa.
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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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Power
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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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To the true African journalist, his newspaper is a collective organizer, a collective instrument of mobilization and a collective educator-a weapon, first and foremost, to overthrow colonialism and imperialism and to assist total African independence and unity.
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The difference between myself and Castro is that I am not aligned and he is; I am a socialist and he is a communist.
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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism just as feudalism is a development by refinement from slavery. Capitalism is but the gentleman's method of slavery.
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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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The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.