Kwame Nkrumah

“The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.”

“I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.”

“The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent.”

“We face neither East nor West; we face forward.”

“Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.”

“The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.”

“Seek ye first the political kingdom and all things shall be added unto you.”

“Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. They claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.”

“Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.”

“Neo-colonialism is the worst form of imperialism. For those who practise it, it means power without responsibility and for those who suffer from it, it means exploitation without redress.”

“Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation.”

“Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is a development by refinement from slavery.”

“It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity.”

“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.”

“Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge.”

“All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any other part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation.”

“For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white.”