Kwame Nkrumah Quote

We cannot tell our peoples that material benefits in growth and modern progress are not for them. If we do, they will throw us out and seek other leaders who promise more … We have to modernize. Either we shall do so with the interest and support of the West or we shall be compelled to turn elsewhere. This is not a warning or a threat, but a straight statement of political reality.

Quoted in Canadian Institute of International Affairs International journal, Volumes 13-14 (1957), p. 160.