Quotes from Kwame Nkrumah

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.

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.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

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.

Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.

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.

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

The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist

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.

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.

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.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

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

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