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.
AHMED BEN BELLAI am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
More Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes
-
-
Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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 French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
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.
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 -
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 -
We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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 -
Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word
AHMED BEN BELLA -
Algeria is not breaking up.
AHMED BEN BELLA






