Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes

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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Algeria is not breaking up.

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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.

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Che came in 1963, shortly after I had come to power.

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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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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.

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No, I live in Algeria, but I often come to Switzerland. I had lived here for ten years, after my quarrels with the Algerian military powers.

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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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Immediately after independence, I was associated with all those who, in the world, themselves undertook the struggle to liberate their own country.

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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.

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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.

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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time 132 years.

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Peace does not include a vendetta there will be neither winners nor losers.

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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. 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 accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

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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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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.

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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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When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men.

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It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime.

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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. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed it's the same fervour that drives me.

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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 myself, speaking as a man of the south, note that something has changed in the north, which is a very important point to raise.

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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. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.

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