Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes

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• Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
• Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This…
• Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of…
• Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally…
• Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the…
• In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates…
• I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to…
• I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
• I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
• I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
• I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all…
• I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where…
• I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for…
• These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big…
• The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of…
• Algeria is not breaking up.
• Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
• Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that…
• When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
• Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word

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