Robert Mugabe

Statesman

1924-02-21

Quotes by Robert Mugabe

• We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

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• If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.

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• Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

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• Grooming a successor, is it an inheritance? In a democratic party, you don't want leaders appointed that way. They have to be appointed properly by the people.

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• Our small and peaceful country is threatened daily by covetous and bigoted big powers whose hunger for domination and control of other nations and their resources knows no bounds.

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• Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

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• Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

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• Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.

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• I've just concluded - since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance - thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee, and ask his hand.

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• I have been given a list of 35 white farmers in Mashonaland West alone. We say no to whites owning our land, and they should go... They can own companies and apartments... but not the soil. It is ours, and that message should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States.

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• Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.

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• Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans; so are its resources.

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• I am glad that Zimbabwe and China speak the same language on many issues. We share the same conviction that only a fair, just, and non-prescriptive world order, based on the principles of the charter of the United Nations, can deliver the development we all need.

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• Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.

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• Zimbabwe has lots of safaris, but very few are African. Most are white-owned. In our region, we have the most safaris and animals. Our people cannot keep suffering.

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• The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

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