"The colonists usually say that it was they……" — Amilcar Cabral
"The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history."
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Amilcar Cabral
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13 Quotes by Amilcar Cabral
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Educate ourselves; educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the…
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Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.
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We must practice revolutionary democracy in every aspect of our Party life. Every responsible member must have the courage of…
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We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our…
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One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have…
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We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose…
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National liberation is necessarily an act of culture
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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
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No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice...
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Tell no lies' claim no easy victories
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Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are…
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Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties,…
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