Top 39 Nkrumah Kwame Quotes
#1. Thought without practice is empty; and action without thought is blind.
(The other 'quote' has it backwards.)
Kwame Nkrumah
#2. I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
Kwame Nkrumah
#3. I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.
Alan Moore
#4. 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.
Kwame Nkrumah
#5. At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is the error of blaming it on the computer.
Tom Gilb
#6. The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
Kwame Nkrumah
#7. Are you drinking because you're sad, or are you drinking to show me how sad you are?
Lauren Groff
#8. 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.
Kwame Nkrumah
#9. As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and Africa. Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people
Kwame Nkrumah
#10. The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
Kwame Nkrumah
#11. The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
Kwame Nkrumah
#12. The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
Kwame Nkrumah
#13. 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.
Kwame Nkrumah
#14. It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
Kwame Nkrumah
#15. Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery.
Kwame Nkrumah
#16. Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa's impoverishment.
Kwame Nkrumah
#17. Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality.
Kwame Nkrumah
#18. Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey.
Kwame Nkrumah
#19. If the guy has a gun, that's the power. He doesn't need to wave the gun; he just needs to point the gun in a very relaxed fashion.
Robert Loggia
#20. The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
Kwame Nkrumah
#21. You have a delicious round birthday cake. How many equal-sized pieces can you cut the cake into by making only three straight slices with a knife and without moving any of the pieces?
Zack Guido
#22. 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.
Kwame Nkrumah
#23. We face neither East nor West; We face forward
Kwame Nkrumah
#24. Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.
Kwame Nkrumah
#25. We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!
Kwame Nkrumah
#26. Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
Anna Quindlen
#27. Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
Kwame Nkrumah
#28. There is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minnelli.
Mark Steyn
#29. Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.
Theodore Sturgeon
#30. It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.
Kwame Nkrumah
#31. 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.
Kwame Nkrumah
#32. The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
Kwame Nkrumah
#33. Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.
Rachel Cusk
#34. 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.
Kwame Nkrumah
#35. 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. Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.
Kwame Nkrumah
#36. Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
Kwame Nkrumah
#37. At long last, the battle has ended!
And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
Kwame Nkrumah
#38. We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
Kwame Nkrumah
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