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Former President For Life Inspirational Quotes (35)

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Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
Kwame Nkrumah
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I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.
Idi Amin
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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.
Kwame Nkrumah
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China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan.
Yuan Shikai
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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 . . .
Kwame Nkrumah
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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.
Idi Amin
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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.
Kwame Nkrumah
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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.
Kwame Nkrumah
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There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech
Idi Amin
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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.
Idi Amin
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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.
Kwame Nkrumah
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The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
Kwame Nkrumah
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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.
Kwame Nkrumah
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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.
Idi Amin
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I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.
Idi Amin
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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.
Kwame Nkrumah
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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.
Kwame Nkrumah
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Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
Idi Amin
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Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.
Idi Amin
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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
Kwame Nkrumah
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I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
Kwame Nkrumah
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Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is because Hitler and all German people knew that Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany.
Idi Amin
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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.
Kwame Nkrumah
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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
Kwame Nkrumah
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