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 BELLAI 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.
More Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes
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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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Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word
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Algeria is not breaking up.
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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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In two years, there were 22 military coups d’etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d’etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.
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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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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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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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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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This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
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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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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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