One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples. — 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 from oppressor and other cultures, they return to the upward paths of their own culture, which… — 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
