Kwame Nkrumah

Africa is one continent, one people and one nation.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.