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.
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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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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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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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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I’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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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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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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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 am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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.
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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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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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