Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes
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.
Ben Bella, Ahmed. "Ahmed Ben Bella: 'My Life is a Continuous Struggle'." Interview by Silvia Cattori. Voltaire Network, 12 May 2006.
For his seditious activities he was sentenced to penal servitude for life. He escaped and came to America where he entered politics
Mobutu with Amerucan CIA and French assistance deposed Lumumba, murdered him, and seized power.
Franco based much of his state on the Fascist examples of Germany and Italy at the time.
He had been King of Portugal and then had come to the Portuguese colony of Brazil where he led a revolution against Portugal, declared independence from the “mother country, and was elected as Emperor of Brazil. The Colony was much larger and richer in natural resources than the “mother country.”
In one of the most unusual revolutions in world history, Brazil became independent from Portugal via a revolution led by the son of the Portuguese King and heir to the throne, Pedro I. The crown prince of Portugal, led Brazil in her breakaway from Portugal and by popular acclaim became Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil. He is probably the only monarch in history who was the heredity monarch of one kingdom and selected by popular acclaim to the throne of another.
In 1837 and 1839 there were insurrections in Lower Canada against British rule. The British put down the rebellions and executed a few of the leaders.
British colonial economics imported raw materials to England which then exported them back to the colonies as manufactured goods. Gandhi correctly calculated that by minimizing purchase of English cloth, colonial control of India would not be as profitable. Gandhi not only called for the boycott, but called on Indians to spin their own cloth, set an example be spinning himself, and his Congress party adopted the spinning wheel as its logo and symbol which continues today. Narcotics, was at the time not only legal, but British economic interests controlled much of the world narcotics trade. Gandhi’s call for a boycott of narcotics was as much an economic tactic as it was a health measure.
The audience which included George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, all began chanting “give me liberty or give me death!”
Ahmed Ben Bella was an Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary who served as the first President of Algeria from 1963 to 1965.
