Kwame Nkrumah Quotes

There is no birthright in the white skin that it shall say that wherever it goes, to any nation, amongst any people, there the people of the country shall give way before it, and those to whom the land belongs shall bow down and become its servants.

The trend of psychology, education, anthropology, and social science is toward environmentalism in the explanation of group differences, which means that the racial beliefs which defended caste are being torn away. It also means, by implication, that the white majority group in power is accused of being the cause of the Negro's deficiencies and unhappiness.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

In every sphere the Europeans must retain the right to rule the country and to keep it a white man’s country.

It is impossible for white men to live with the coloured races without adopting a conviction that…they have the right to command the services of the less civilized.

Every institution where a number of the coloured races are, or can be drawn together, shall be broken up… If we destroy, or prevent the building of the nest, we shall not be liable to the incursions of the brood.

The whites tell us of their enlightened understanding, and the wisdom they have from heaven, at the same time, they cheat us to their hearts’ content. For we are as fools in their eyes, and they say among themselves, the Indians know nothing!

Not only are whites kicking us; they are telling us how to react to being kicked.

You have introduced Western education, with freedom of speech and freedom of writing.... Side by side with these there have been great evils. One such evil is a steady dwarfing of the race in consequence of its exclusion from power.

The Declaration of Independence was written by white men for white men.

...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

Our party [Zanu-PF] must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.

In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.

We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

Certainly let the black man have the franchise on the same terms as the white man, but while a Kaffir may make as good a Prime Minister as Lord Beaconsfield, for at least the next hundred years we shall not choose to be ruled by him.

We should be lords over them…these are the politics of South Africa.

Instruction! Instruction! is what the Boers lack above all else; they call themselves Christians, and Kaffirs and Hottentots heathen, and for this reason they believe that they are permitted anything.

WHITE man’s government ... should not be scoffed at; that it is a prejudice in the country that no man has a right to disregard

Whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior.

The white man believes in equality, but apparently believes the white man is more equal than the Indian.

Whites don’t like to see the nigger with too much … White people was afraid that money will make the nigger act like his own man.