quotes about Algeria
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
-- Abba EbanSource : "A fence built for peace" by Abba Eban, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.
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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
-- Ahmed Ben BellaSource : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella -
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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 BellaSource : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
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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 -
Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.
-- Pierre BourdieuSource : Pierre Bourdieu (2014). “Picturing Algeria”, p.32, Columbia University Press
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There are those who will find [Albert Camus] notions about absurdity appealing, and others who will be drawn by the solar side of his work, about Algeria, the heat and so on.
-- Catherine Camus -
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[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him absolutely because of his poverty.
-- Catherine Camus -
[Albert Camus] really did know Algeria. He was an exile from his country, but still living in its language. Solitaire et solidaire. It's not like those who are exiled to a country where the language is not theirs.
-- Catherine Camus -
If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.
-- Georges Bidault