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 BELLAIt is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won’t be easy.
More Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes
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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.
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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 result time and time again.
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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 victims in the north as well.
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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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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 they were born, near the city of Marrakech.
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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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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.
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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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.
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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