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 started for me at the age of 16.
AHMED BEN BELLAColonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies.
More Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes
-
-
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 reacted against us.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
I’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
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 nothing at all.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
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 countries like Egypt.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
AHMED BEN BELLA -
I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won’t be easy.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
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 fight, they will both bleed to death.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
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 those who fought left.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
AHMED BEN BELLA