Ancestor Quote by Amilcar Cabral

“We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.” quote by Amilcar Cabral — Download Open image

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

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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 fighting to win material…

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A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance of positive accretions…

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Tell no lies' claim no easy victories

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The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us…

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

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Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

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We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may never more…

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