Amílcar Cabral Quotes

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Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

Amílcar Cabral

Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.

Amílcar Cabral

We Africans, having rejected the idea of begging for freedom, which was contrary to our dignity and our sacred right to freedom and independence, reaffirmed our steadfast decision to end colonial domination of our country, no matter what the sacrifices involved, and to conquer for ourselves the opportunity to achieve in peace our own progress and happiness.

Amílcar Cabral

Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone's head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children.

Amílcar Cabral

The national liberation of a people is the regaining of the historical personality of that people.

Amílcar Cabral

Amílcar Cabral

Amílcar Cabral

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Born: September 12, 1924

Died: January 20, 1973 (aged 48)

Bio: Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral was a Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, intellectual, poet, theoretician, revolutionary, political organizer, nationalist and diplomat. He was one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders.

Known for:

Unity and struggle
Return to the Source (1973)
Resistance and Decolonization
Revolution in Guinea (1969)
Our people are our mountains (1971)

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