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I am the hero of Africa.
You cannot run faster than a bullet.
We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
Africa is one continent, one people and one nation
I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.
The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.
There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech
China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan.
At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.
If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!
The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.
The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.
Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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.
I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world.
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 racial equality.
All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation.
I do not want to be controlled by any superpower. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world, and that is why I do not let any superpower control me.
Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery.
The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.
But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey published by his wife.
I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.
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, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.
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.
It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated.
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 dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.
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 be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .
His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.
My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.
The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
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 and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people
Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa’s impoverishment.
The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world. Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.
Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution ought to be socialised if exploitation of the many by the few is to be prevented; if, that is to say, egalitarianism in the economy is to be protected.