"From their point of view, I had gone……" — Ahmed Ben Bella
"From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so."
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Ahmed Ben Bella
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30 Quotes by Ahmed Ben Bella
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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with…
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Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain -…
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Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the…
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Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew…
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In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a…
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I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of…
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria;…
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I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only…
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