Zimbabwe Quotes

• I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!

  Richard Pryor

  Funny, White, America

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• So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

  Robert Mugabe

  England, Blair, Let Me

  "Hands off Zimbabwe, Mugabe tells Blair", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2002.

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

  Robert Mugabe

  Men, White Man, Indigenous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

  Robert Mugabe

  Europe, Mind, Sanctions

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather, I am referring to the African peoples.

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Animal, Kenya

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.35, Creators Publishing

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• The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

  Robert Mugabe

  Men, White Man, Evil

  "Not a black and white story" by Blessing-Miles Tendi, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2008.

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• Set it up in Zimbabwe, Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny, And in this judgment there is no partiality. So arm in arms, with arms, we'll fight this little struggle, 'Cause that's the only way we can overcome our little trouble.

  Bob Marley

  Struggle, Fighting, Destiny

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• Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet, except in political speeches). The fear is not that there will be mass slaughter of the whites, followed by their flight to South Africa and the collapse of the economy, but that the need to retain white confidence may mean that the blacks are badly disappointed.

  Simon Hoggart

  Optimistic, Mean, White

  "Ironing the Lawn in Salisbury, Rhodesia". www.theguardian.com. February 09, 1980.

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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.

  Robert Mugabe

  Sports, Cricket Match, Play

  In Sunday Times 26 Feb. 1984

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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.

  Robert Mugabe

  Iran, Voice, Iraq

  "Mugabe uses UN forum to compare Blair to Mussolini" by John Hooper, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2005.

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• Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Average, Economy

  Interview with Heidi Holland, December 2007.

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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.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Sex, Couple

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• I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again.

  Peter Hain

  People, Support, Mugabe

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• Zimbabwe is a lost country. There is no money in Zimbabwe, everything stands still. The economy of the country is in shambles, the inflation is the highest in this world.

  Thomas Mapfumo

  Country, World, Economy

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective, justice for his own people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people, and their rights to their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold. Ten times, that is what we stand for.

  Robert Mugabe

  Rights, People, Justice

  "'Hitler' Mugabe launches revenge terror attacks" by Peta Thornycroft, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 26, 2003.

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• Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

  Helen Clark

  World, Crank, Sanctions

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• If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war.

  Marc Faber

  War, Europe, Down And

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• The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Responsibility, Government, People

  Thabo Mbeki (2002). “Africa Define Yourself”

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• We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood... So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

  Robert Mugabe

  Blood, Land, Independence

  Robert Mugabe's speech at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg, September 2, 2002.

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• If I went back to Zimbabwe, I am not afraid of the police or the soldiers. I am afraid of those elements which are being used by the regime. People who have nothing, I mean, who don't care whether they are paid $50 to kill someone, they could just do it for.

  Thomas Mapfumo

  Mean, People, Police

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• ...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Rights, Groups, Arabia

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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.

  Robert Mugabe

  Yesterday, Today, Justification

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• When I first arrived in beautiful Zimbabwe, it was difficult to understand that 35 percent of the population is HIV positive. It really wasn't until I was invited to the homes of people that I started to understand the human toll of the epidemic.

  Kristen Ashburn

  Beautiful, Home, Epidemics

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• In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay in the Sahel or powerful Great Zimbabwe in the West Africa tablelands, bigger than the cresting Ottoman Empire, bigger than the Triple Alliance (as the Aztec empire is more precisely known), bigger by far than any European state, the Inka dominion extended over a staggering thirty-two degrees of latitude—as if a single power held sway from St. Petersburg to Cairo.

  Charles C. Mann

  Powerful, Russia, Aztec

  Charles C. Mann (2006). “1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus”, p.74, Vintage

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• If the situation in Zimbabwe continues to deteriorate, Britain will argue for Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in March.

  Jack Straw

  Government, Arguing, March

  "UK threat to punish Mugabe" by Andrew Meldrum and Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2002.

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