Culture Quote by Amilcar Cabral

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

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

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

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

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

— Amilcar Cabral

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

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

Tell no lies' claim no easy victories

— 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…

— Amilcar Cabral

We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it.

— Amilcar Cabral

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

National liberation is necessarily an act of culture

— Amilcar Cabral