"In two years, there were 22 military coups……" — Ahmed Ben Bella
"In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path."
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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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