Amilcar Cabral Quotes

Guinea, Politician
September 12, 1924 – January, 20, 1973.

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

Tell no lies claim no easy victories.

Amilcar Cabral
- Lies
- Claim
- Victories
Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.

Amilcar Cabral
- Mask
- Hide
- Victories

We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it.

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

Amilcar Cabral
National liberation is necessarily an act of culture.

Amilcar Cabral
- Culture
- Act
- Liberation
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. . .

Amilcar Cabral
- Future
- Fighting
- Benefits
We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose the vision of concrete reality.

Amilcar Cabral
- Reality
- Lose
- Run
Educate ourselves; educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to nature and natural forces which our economy has not yet mastered.

Amilcar Cabral
- Fight
- Educate
- Subjection

No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice.

Amilcar Cabral
- Water
- Matter
- Cook
We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

Amilcar Cabral
- Children
- Act
- Answer