Robert Mugabe Quotes

• Cricket? It civilises people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe. I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

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• Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

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  Tags in Domestic, World, Change, Bring, Decide

• We don’t mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

  Robert Mugabe

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  Tags in European, Mind

• Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

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  Topics in Enemy

  Tags in Party, Heart, Man, Continue

• We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

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  Tags in Negotiating, Without, Land, Longer

• The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

  Robert Mugabe

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  Tags in Dead, Man

• The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

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• Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

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  Tags in People, Making

• If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.

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  Tags in Member, Choice

• Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

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  Tags in Unity, Constitute, Remain, Stay

• In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

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  Tags in hostile, Times, Started

• People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won’t be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

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  Tags in Own, People, Right, Anyone, Soldier

• I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

  Robert Mugabe

  Topics in Commitment

  Tags in Conflict, Return

• We are not hungry… Why foist this food upon us? We don’t want to be choked. We have enough.

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  Tags in Want, Enough, Food

• We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder… We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

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  Tags in Top, Actually, Pride, Feel, Really

• It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

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  Tags in Method, Necessary

• 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 Mugabe

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  Tags in People, Security, Most, Product

• True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.

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  Tags in Land

• We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.

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  Tags in Owner, Land

• 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 Mugabe

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Equality, European, Happen, People, Land

Robert Mugabe (23)

Birth:	21st February, 1924
Nationality:	Zimbabwean
Profession:	President

About

Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980. He served as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987, and as the first executive head of state since 1987.

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