"We must act as if we answer to,……" — Amilcar Cabral

"We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn."

— Amilcar Cabral

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13 Quotes by Amilcar Cabral

Amilcar Cabral has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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