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..

As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and Africa. Long after i am dead ….

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

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

It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Afr….

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

Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlem….

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

No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states. It is far better to….

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….

Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distributio….

It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the condition….

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..

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

There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intel….

Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge - a challenge which calls f….

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

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

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 raci….