Amilcar Cabral Quotes
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We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it.
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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.
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Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.
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National liberation is necessarily an act of culture.
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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
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Tell no lies claim no easy victories.
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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.
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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. . .