Quotes by Ahmed Ben Bella - Page 1

Algeria is not breaking up.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Break Up
Smile
Algeria
Breaking Promises
Breaking
Breaking Up
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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Half
Prison
Years
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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Left
Marxist
Resolutely
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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Algeria
Long
Years
Time Long Long Time
French
Lasted
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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Doe
Loser
Vendetta
Winner
Losers
Include
Neither
Nor
Winners
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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Different
Leftists
Party
Parties
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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Action
Conviction
Left
Convictions
Actions
Arab
Muslim
Oriented
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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Country
Engaged
Horizon
Struggle
Horizons
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
America
Including
Latin
Latin America
Liberation
Movement
Practically
Movements
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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.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
War
Country
Easy
Obvious
Lawful
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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
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Littles
May
Unity
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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Algeria
Life Is
Parent
Life I Am My Life
Origin
Yes
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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.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Army
Disappear
Point Of View
Overthrown
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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.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Belgium
Britain
Colonialism
Country
Europe
France
Great Britain
Ideas
West
Countries
Drives
Italy
Occupy
Outside
Western Countries
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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.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Military
Path
Third World
Two
Years
Africa
Coup
Essentially
Opened
Third
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I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Age
Algeria
Cities
Peasants
Son
Young Age
Near
Poor Peasants
Recently
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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.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Algeria
Capitalist
Development
Finally
Therefore
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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.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Country
Egypt
General Motors
Groups
Monetary
Scale
More Big Than
Industrial
Motors
Multinational
Weigh
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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.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
People
Pitiful
Support
Thinking
People Support Who
Counted
Proper
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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.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Colonialism
Liberation
Armies
Establish
Internal
Regime
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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.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Optimistic
Capable
Fighting
Islamic
Military
Pragmatic
Sides
Winning
Bleed
Neither
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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.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Leader
Military
Struggle
Everywhere
Agreed
Authorities
Coup
Result
Time And Time
Triumphed
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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.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Arms
Sacred
Twice
Helped
Occasion
Offered
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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.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Country
Liberation
Special
Struggle
Actively
Life Struggle My Life
Life My Life Country
Likewise
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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.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Algeria
America
Fighting
South America
Weapons
Arranged
Networks
Fought
Trained
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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.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Army
Colonialism
Indonesia
Permanent
Primitive
Years
Colonial
Cruel
Foreign Powers
Lasted
Occupations
Phase
Policies
Powers
Repressive
Services
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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.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Changed
Combat
Instant
Motivation
Single Life
Years
Life Age Me
Drives
Life Is A
Yes
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. 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 / Soldier
Government
Country
Engaged
Fighting
Precise
Overcome
Africa
Fights
Barely
Bringing
Practically
Several
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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. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Army
Fighting
Organization
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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. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Algeria
Army
Five
France
Liberation
Movement
Organization
Size
Territory
French
Created
Fight
Led
Tens
Throughout
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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.
Ahmed Ben Bella / Soldier
Manifest
Misery
Past
Poverty
Good Past Bad
Companies
Creates
Global
In The Past
Multinational
North
Serve
Spoke
Victims
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