Robert Mugabe quotes
-
“Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum and you realise witchcraft is real”
-- Robert Mugabe -
“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 -
“Dont fight even over girlfriends. The country is full of beautiful women. If you cant get one, come to Mugabe for assistance.”
-- Robert Mugabe -
“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 MugabeSource : "'Hitler' Mugabe launches revenge terror attacks" by Peta Thornycroft, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 26, 2003.
-
-
“South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner”
-- Robert Mugabe -
“The struggle hasn't ended. It's only just begun in our view. In the sense that if all goes well during the elections and we emerge as the government there will still be another form of struggle. But there's going to be lots of work in reconstruction, resettling people. In the initial period we will expect all the support groups we have here in Britain and elsewhere to concentrate their efforts in enabling us to resettle our people.”
-- Robert MugabeSource : Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org
-
“The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.”
-- Robert MugabeSource : "Not a black and white story" by Blessing-Miles Tendi, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2008.
-
“I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.”
-- Robert Mugabe -
-
“Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.”
-- Robert MugabeSource : ""Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe". Book by Martin Meredith, 2002.
-
“Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists.”
-- Robert MugabeSource : Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 2007.
-
“If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads.”
-- Robert Mugabe -
“Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.”
-- Robert Mugabe -
-
“Only God who appointed me will remove me.”
-- Robert Mugabe -
“The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like Animal Farm, where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals?”
-- Robert MugabeSource : "Mugabe: Commonwealth is 'Animal Farm'" by Chris Chinaka and Ed Johnson, www.independent.co.uk. December 7, 2003.
-
“The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.”
-- Robert MugabeSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
-
“What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.”
-- Robert Mugabe -
-
“I think that the movement is weak in Zimbabwe, much weaker than it is in Italy for example, much weaker than it is in Spain, much weaker than it is even in Germany, although there the groups are small they are very vociferous and you get them speaking loudly and organising.”
-- Robert MugabeSource : Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org
-
“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 MugabeSource : Robert Mugabe's speech at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg, September 2, 2002.
-
“We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall never collapse, never ever.”
-- Robert Mugabe -
“We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.”
-- Robert MugabeSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
-
-
“It's not possible that women can be at par with men.”
-- Robert Mugabe -
“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 MugabeSource : "Mugabe uses UN forum to compare Blair to Mussolini" by John Hooper, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2005.
-
“I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?”
-- Robert MugabeSource : Source: www.npr.org
-
“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 MugabeSource : Interview with Heidi Holland, December 2007.
-
-
“We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.”
-- Robert Mugabe
You may also like:
-
Arthur Mutambara
Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe -
Augusto Pinochet
Former President of Chile -
Forest Whitaker
Actor -
Helen Zille
Mayor of Cape Town -
Idi Amin
Former President for Life -
Jacob Zuma
President of South Africa -
James McAvoy
Actor -
Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwean Politician -
Joseph Stalin
Former Premier of the Soviet Union -
Joshua Nkomo
Former Vice President of Zimbabwe -
Julius Malema
Political leader -
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian Politician -
Kenneth Kaunda
Teacher -
Muammar al-Gaddafi
Former Prime Minister of Libya -
Nelson Mandela
Former President of South Africa -
Paul Biya
President of Cameroon -
Pol Pot
Political leader -
Thabo Mbeki
South African Politician -
Yoweri Museveni
President of Uganda
