Confrontation Quote by Omar Bongo

South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime there. They…

— Noam Chomsky

“Since 1947, official American policy towards the Soviet Union had been one of containment short of war; but the same geostrategic principles did not…

— Malcolm H. Murfett

Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct…

— Vladimir Putin

The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live…

— Paul Robeson

I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite…

— Gerald Horne

Cuba forces in Angola gave a real shot in the arm to the liberation movements, and it also was a lesson to the white…

— Noam Chomsky

Africans are on the front lines of humanitarian efforts, distributing life-saving aid in dangerous environments. Africans comprise the vast majority of peacekeepers in civil…

— John Prendergast

It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided…

— Kwame Nkrumah

“Over the course of nearly a half-century, Cuba, Congo, Ghana, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iran, Namibia, Mozambique, Chile, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.

— Mark Shields

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.

— Ahmed Yassin