Ho Chi Minh Quotes

“The U.S. imperialists supply armaments to their henchmen to massacre the Indochinese peoples. They dump their goods in Indochina to prevent the development of local handicrafts. Their pornographic culture depraves the youth in areas placed under their control. They follow the policy of buying up, deluding and dividing our people. They strive to turn some bad elements into U.S. agents that they use for the conquest of our country.”
― Hồ Chí Minh, Against US Aggression For National Salvation

“The U.S. imperialists are expanding their war against national independence and peace in Vietnam. They are committing monstrous atrocities and crimes more odious than the Hitlerite fascists.”
― Hồ Chí Minh, Against US Aggression For National Salvation

“The U.S. directed military-political aims at present are to herd the entire population in the countryside of South Vietnam into concentration camps - fortified villages surrounded with barbed wire entanglements and moats - from which the peasants may leave only in daylight hours under the guns of the U.S - Diemist troops. The main military operations are designed to sweep the peasants up into the so-called 'strategic hamlets', the concentration camp villages. The people of South Vietnam resist this, they refuse to live like slaves. With primitive arms made by themselves and those they can capture from their oppressors they fight back. In order to increase the pressure on them, U.S. planes have of late greatly stepped up their barbaric campaign of destroying rice and other food crops by air-sprayed chemicals and thus starve the peasants into submission.”
― Hồ Chí Minh, Against US Aggression For National Salvation

“In the minds of the Vietnamese people in general, Ho Chi Minh was a national hero who had led their struggle against the French. Except for a very small group of intellectuals, no one thought of him as a Communist, or as one who was about to establish a Communist regime in Vietnam.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire