Freedom Quote by 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.” quote by Kwame Nkrumah — Download Open image

“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

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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.

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“Never before in history has such a sweeping fervor for freedom expressed itself in great mass movements which are driving down the bastions of empire. This wind of change blowing through Africa, as I have said before, is no ordinary wind. It is a raging hurricane against which the old order cannot stand [...] The great millions of Africa, and…

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We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move…

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Africa is one continent, one people and one nation

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

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

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

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Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

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“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived, had no moral ground on which to stand. They had the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law—in a word, power. But it was a criminal power, to be feared but not respected, and to be…

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

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