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"Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men."
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Social Activism
1868–1963
"Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men."
55 quotes
🇬🇭Kofi Annan
Politics
1938–2018
"Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come."
53 quotes
🇬🇭Kwame Nkrumah
Politics
1909–1972
"Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism just as feudalism is a development by refinement from slavery. Capitalism is but the gentleman's method of slavery."
24 quotes
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🇬🇭Ernest Debrah
Politics
1947–2016
"You can play the piano with the white keys only or you can play it with only the black keys. But for harmony you must use the black and the white keys."
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🇬🇭Kevin-Prince Boateng
Sports
b. 1987
"Kevin-Prince Boateng profile at the A.C. Milan official website"
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Notable Quotes
"Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come."
— Kofi Annan, b. 1938View →
"Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism just as feudalism is a development by refinement from slavery. Capitalism is but the gentleman's method of slavery."
— Kwame Nkrumah, b. 1909View →
"So far as the Negroes were concerned, their demand for a reasonable part of the land on which they had worked for a quarter of a millennium was absolutely justified, and to give them anything less than this was an economic farce."
— W. E. B. Du Bois, b. 1868View →
"To the true African journalist, his newspaper is a collective organizer, a collective instrument of mobilization and a collective educator—a weapon, first and foremost, to overthrow colonialism and imperialism and to assist total African independence and unity."
— Kwame Nkrumah, b. 1909View →
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line."
— W. E. B. Du Bois, b. 1868View →