Top 38 Quotes About Kwame Nkrumah: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Kwame Nkrumah

#1. 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

#2. The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.

Rosa DeLauro

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Dogbert gazing at night sky No matter how bad the day is, the stars are always there. Dilbert Actually, many of them burned out years ago, but their light is just now reaching earth. DogbertThank you for shattering my comfortable misconception. DilbertIt's the miracle of science.

Scott Adams

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.

Kwame Nkrumah

#9. Thought without practice is empty; and action without thought is blind.
(The other 'quote' has it backwards.)

Kwame Nkrumah

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

Kwame Nkrumah

#11. I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.

Kwame Nkrumah

#12. She had always assumed that her life would end inside the war, that the war itself would be her eternal present, as it was for Darrow and for her brother. The possibility of time going on, her memories growing dim, the photographs of the battles turning from life into history terrified her.

Tatjana Soli

#13. It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else

Kwame Nkrumah

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality.

Kwame Nkrumah

#17. A wise man once told me that the place where they make law is the place where they're the least likely to obey it,

Larry Correia

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

Kwame Nkrumah

#20. My mother's voice intruded on a dream in which a large animated eggplant named Bob teetered on the edge of a cliff with thoughts of suicide and Parmesan.

Stacey Kade

#21. 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

#22. We face neither East nor West; We face forward

Kwame Nkrumah

#23. All these nice people saying I'm going to be world champion won't make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.

Sebastian Vettel

#24. Brave enough? Or stupid enough?" "Sometimes," she said, pulling the cork out, "there is truly no difference.

G.A. Aiken

#25. 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

#26. We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!

Kwame Nkrumah

#27. Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.

Kwame Nkrumah

#28. There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.

Cullen Hightower

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Kwame Nkrumah

#32. 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

#33. 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