Kwame Nkrumah

As long as we remain subject to an alien power, too much of our energy is diverted from constructive enterprise. Oppressive forces breed frustration. Imperialism and colonialism are a twofold evil. This theme is expressed in the truism that 'no nation which oppresses another can itself be free'. Thuse we see that this evil not only wounds the people which is subject, but the dominant nation pays the price in a warping of their finer sensibilities through arrogance and greed. Imperialism and colonialism are a barrier to true friendship...

Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speeches

Kwame Nkrumah, Speech, Accra, 10 July 1953; 'The motion of destiny'


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