Kwame Nkrumah Quotes

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

We are here to make another world.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

I am still radical!

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

I'm ready for a different America.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.

Dare! — this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

Heroism means going out of bounds. In this world things must go out of bounds from time to time... No one can desire that the world continue to muddle along in every respect in the groove into which imperfect laws and even more imperfect behavior have pushed it. Without heroic intervention no Council of Nicaea, no dethronement of the Merovingians, no conquest of England, no Reformation, no revolt of the Netherlands, no free America. The thing that counts is who intervenes, how and in the name of what.

What we are doing today is more than singing an agreement. It is a revolution.

I'm proud to be part of the resistance.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

Campaigns end, revolutions endure.