It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won’t be easy.
AHMED BEN BELLAWith my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
More Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes
-
-
With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
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.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
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 BELLA -
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.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
I spent 24 and a half years in prison
AHMED BEN BELLA -
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 -
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.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
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 BELLA -
Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
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.
AHMED BEN BELLA