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 BELLALet us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word
More Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes
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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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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 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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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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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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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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Algeria is not breaking up.
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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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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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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