Amilcar Cabral Quotes

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• Educate ourselves; educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to nature and natural…
• 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 his responsibilities, exacting from others…
• We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may never more be…
• One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate…
• We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose the vision of concrete reality.
• National liberation is necessarily an act of culture
• We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
• 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 fighting to win material benefits,…
• 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…
• Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy…

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