Kwame Nkrumah Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.

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.

At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!

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.

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

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

Africa is one continent, one people and one nation

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.

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

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