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
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
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
We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
– Kwame Nkrumah
We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
– Kwame Nkrumah
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.