I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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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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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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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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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