Josip Broz Tito quotes
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“Churchill , he is a great man. He is, of course, our enemy and has always been the enemy of Communism, but he is an enemy one must respect, an enemy one likes to have.”
-- Josip Broz TitoSource : "Tito: A Biography". Book by Jasper Ridley, 1994.
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“We have spilt an ocean of blood for the brotherhood and unity of our peoples and we shall not allow anyone to touch or destroy it from within.”
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“I am the leader of one country which has two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, six republics, surrounded by seven neighbours, a country in which live eight ethnic minorities.”
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“Today, 9 May, exactly forty-nine months and three days after the Fascist attack on Yugoslavia, the most powerful aggressive force in Europe, Germany, has capitulated.”
-- Josip Broz TitoSource : "Tito: A Biography". Book by Jasper Ridley, 1994.
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“Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia”
-- Josip Broz TitoSource : Source: www.nbcnews.com
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“Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.”
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“Ancient Hawaiians say: When you're itching for the waves, the only lotion is the ocean.”
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“During the war, a battle was fought here, not only for the creation of a new Yugoslavia, but also a battle for Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sovereign republic. To some generals and leaders their position on this was not quite clear. I never once doubted my stance on Bosnia. I always said that Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot belong to this or that, only to the people that lived there since the beginning of time.”
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“Let that man be a Bosnian, Herzegovinian. Outside they don't call you by another name, except simply a Bosnian. Whether that be a Muslim (Bosniak), Serb or Croat. Everyone can be what they feel that they are, and no one has a right to force a nationality upon them.”
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“A decade ago young people en masse began declaring themselves as Yugoslavs. It was a form of rising Yugoslav nationalism, which was a reaction to brotherhood and unity and a feeling of belonging to a single socialist self-managing society. This pleased me greatly.”
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“None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future.”
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“No one questioned "who is a Serb, who is a Croat, who is a Muslim (Bosniak)" we were all one people, that's how it was back then, and I still think it is that way today.”
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“The peoples of Yugoslavia do not want Fascism. They do not want a totalitarian regime, they do not want to become slaves of the German and Italian financial oligarchy as they never wanted to become reconciled to the semi-colonial dependence imposed on them by the so-called Western democracies after the first imperialist war.”
-- Josip Broz TitoSource : "Tito: A Biography". Book by Jasper Ridley, 1994.
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