Kwame Nkrumah

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

— Kwame Nkrumah

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

— Kwame Nkrumah

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

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

— Kwame Nkrumah

Capitalism is too complicated a system for a newly independent nation. Hence the need for a socialistic society.

— Kwame Nkrumah

Just as in the days of the Egyptians, so today God had ordained that certain among the African race should journey westwards to equip themselves with knowledge and experience for the day when they would be called upon to return to their motherland and to use the learning they had acquired to help improve the lot of their brethren. ...I had not realized at the time that I would contribute so much towards the fulfillment of this prophecy.

— Kwame Nkrumah

We cannot tell our peoples that material benefits in growth and modern progress are not for them. If we do, they will throw us out and seek other leaders who promise more … We have to modernize. Either we shall do so with the interest and support of the West or we shall be compelled to turn elsewhere. This is not a warning or a threat, but a straight statement of political reality.

— Kwame Nkrumah

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.

— Kwame Nkrumah

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.

— Kwame Nkrumah

The difference between myself and Castro is that I am not aligned and he is; I am a socialist and he is a communist.

— Kwame Nkrumah

The independence of Ghana is meaningless until it is linked to the total liberation of Africa.

— Kwame Nkrumah

When they came across doctrines of a combative nature, like those of Marxism, they reduced them to arid abstractions, to common-room subtleties. In this way, through the good graces of their colonialist patrons, these students, now competent in the art of forming not a concrete environmental view of social political problems, but an abstract, 'liberal' outlook, began to fulfil the hopes and expectations of their guides and guardians.

— Kwame Nkrumah

There were the vast numbers of ordinary Africans, who, animated by a lively , sought knowledge as an instrument of national emancipation and integrity. This is not to say that these Africans overlooked the purely cultural value of their studies. But in order that their cultural acquisition should be valuable, they needed to be capable of appreciating it as free men.

— Kwame Nkrumah

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.

— Kwame Nkrumah

Always be the servant of the people.

— Kwame Nkrumah

The guerrilla is the masses in arms.

— Kwame Nkrumah

The modifications introduced by imperialism in its strategy were expressed:(b) through the replacement of "national" imperialisms by a "collective" imperialism in which the USA occupies a leading position.

— Kwame Nkrumah

The principle of mutual inter-imperialist assistance whereby American, British, French and West German monopoly capital extends joint control over the wealth of the non-liberated zones of Africa, Latin America and Asia, finds concrete expression in the formation of interlocked international financial institutions and bodies of credit.

— Kwame Nkrumah

A state can be said to be a neo-colonialist or client state if it is independent de jure and dependent de facto. It is a state where political power lies in the conservative forces of the former colony and where economic power remains under the control of international finance capital.

— Kwame Nkrumah

The three essential components of neo-colonialism are:4. Economic "aid."

— Kwame Nkrumah