Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Ahmed Ben Bella
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“Algeria is not breaking up.”
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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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“Che came in 1963, shortly after I had come to power.”
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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. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.”
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“Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.”
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“For other movements, which were not involved in a military fight and who needed only political support, such as Mali, we helped in other ways.”
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“From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so.”
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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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