Kwame Nkrumah Quotes

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

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

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.

Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey.

Thought without practice is empty; and action without thought is blind.
(The other 'quote' has it backwards.)

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

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

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

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

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.

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

We face neither East nor West; We face forward

Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality.

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

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

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