We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
AHMED BEN BELLAThis has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
More Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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I’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
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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.
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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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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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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries – like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain – to occupy countries outside of Europe.
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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support.
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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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Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies.
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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.
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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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I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
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