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 BELLAI 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.
More Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes
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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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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 am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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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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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won’t be easy.
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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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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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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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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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.
AHMED BEN BELLA