My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation. Ahmed Ben Bella Read Quote
The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France. Ahmed Ben Bella Read Quote
When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men. Ahmed Ben Bella Read Quote
I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech. Ahmed Ben Bella Read Quote
I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America. Ahmed Ben Bella Read Quote
I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it’s from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks. Ahmed Ben Bella Read Quote
Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it’s the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us. Ahmed Ben Bella Read Quote
Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties. Ahmed Ben Bella Read Quote
