Robert Mugabe Quotes

We want a country. and we will get it, our country.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.

No new state is ever fully ready for independence ..

The test of a good colonial policy is that it shall prepare colonies for independent self—government.

We do not want to be anybody's pawns. We are an ancient people. We want our autonomy. We want sarbasti—freedom. I do not know who will take my place one day. But they cannot crush us.

We're seeking sovereignty because it is absolutely essential, like the ripening of the fruit, like reaching adulthood, like the opening of river into the ocean. It is necessary because we are a people.

All my people want is independence under a protectorate.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

No people likes to be ruled by foreigners.

The West shall be free from the British Isles.

The colonial powers especially the more heedless ones ... dumped their former possessions on the threshold of independence with little if any preparation for statehood.

I believe a real democracy can only flourish when you have your own nation state, your own identity, even your own flag you can rally around.

Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.

If you believe you're a nation, then I accept you as a nation.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might.

With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.

Puerto Rico has two divergent paths forward. After a reasonable transition period, it could become a state. Or it can become a sovereign nation.

My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.