Top 23 Amilcar Cabral Quotes
#1. We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it.
Amilcar Cabral
#2. Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.
Amilcar Cabral
#3. It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Harvey MacKay
#4. Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories ...
Amilcar Cabral
#6. 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.
Amilcar Cabral
#7. Educate ourselves; educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to nature and natural forces which our economy has not yet mastered.
Amilcar Cabral
#8. Your role as their teacher is to let them know ahead of time that if Jesus can't handle a little partying, we all need a new Jesus.
Brad M. Griffin
#9. One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples.
Amilcar Cabral
#10. Our green valleys will be greener once we fully grasp the infinite vitality of the green!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#11. Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.
Jim Rohn
#12. No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice ...
Amilcar Cabral
#13. Objectivity is a fallacy ... there are different opinions, but you dont give them equal weight.
Robert Bazell
#14. It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.
J.D. Salinger
#15. We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose the vision of concrete reality.
Amilcar Cabral
#16. We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
Amilcar Cabral
#17. As he satin the tree he looked down at the girl in the floral dress and felt his heart miss a beat.
Isabella Kruger
#18. Sometimes it was so easy to forget that I was kissing a vampire.
Stephenie Meyer
#19. I didn't fail ten thousand times.
I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times,
materials and combinations which wouldn't work.
Thomas A. Edison
#20. From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.
Joel Salatin
#21. I'm pretty sure I could outrun the whole Dallas Cowboys team.
Adrian Peterson
#22. Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone's head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children ...
Amilcar Cabral
#23. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal
Bobby Sands
