Robert Mugabe Quotes
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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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There is the possibility that these troops will be used against us if we are victorious. There is also the possibility that in fact the South Africans are there at the invitation of Britain, because Britain is hesitating to remove them. Hence there is a need for us to combine forces and demand through all political platforms, through all media, the withdrawal of South African troops and action, definite action, by Britain to get those South African troops out.
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We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
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South Africa needs a second liberation.
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The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.
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Only God who appointed me will remove me.
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Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.
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What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.
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We expected anyway that the democratic forces which have agreed with us in Zimbabwe would have rallied behind us. But it was a difficult struggle.
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South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner
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Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum and you realise witchcraft is real
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Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
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There are many refugees, if not more refugees inside the country than outside the country. There is also the question of working to aid us at the present moment when we are campaigning for elections.
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We will defend our victory through armed struggle. We will have to do that.
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The voice of Mr Bush and the voice of Mr Blair can't decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in Venezuela, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq.
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People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.
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I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.
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I think that the movement is weak in Zimbabwe, much weaker than it is in Italy for example, much weaker than it is in Spain, much weaker than it is even in Germany, although there the groups are small they are very vociferous and you get them speaking loudly and organising.
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It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.
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We will have no mercy for white people regarding the land, they cannot own our soil.
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We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.
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In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.
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I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.
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Dont fight even over girlfriends. The country is full of beautiful women. If you cant get one, come to Mugabe for assistance.
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The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like Animal Farm, where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals?
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The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.
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Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.
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Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.
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Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists.
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If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so that I marry him first.
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