Ahmed Ben Bella

“Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail.”

“We are all Palestinians.”

“Algeria is my fatherland and my mother is the revolution.”

“We must be the great arsenal of liberty.”

“To be a revolutionary is to be a human being.”

“I'm a Muslim, but I'm a secularist. I believe in the separation of religion from the state.”

“For us, the world is divided into two camps: the revolutionary and the counter-revolutionary.”

“The strength of a people is in its culture.”

“The problems of the Third World are not intrinsically of the Third World.”