“The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.”
― Return to the Source: Selected Speeches of Amílcar Cabral
― Return to the Source: Selected Speeches of Amílcar Cabral
“Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of women’s silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt.”
― Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle
― Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle
“Those dogs of the hajj go to Mecca to pray when they don't possess even the decency or generosity of spirit to pardon or forgive.”
― Wolves of the Crescent Moon
― Wolves of the Crescent Moon
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