The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose the vision of concrete… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn. — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
Educate ourselves; educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to nature and… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance of positive accretions… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it. — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history. — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may never more… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
