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There are things one must do for oneself.

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Robert Mugabe
Age: 95 †
Born: 1924
Born: February 21
Died: 2019
Died: September 6
Politician
President Of Zimbabwe
Kutama
Zimbabwe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe
Mugabe
Oneself
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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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We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
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Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.
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South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner
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Certainly we must combine forces . South African troops are within the country.We raised this matter with Mrs [Margaret] Thatcher and Lord [Peter] Carrington when we met them and we wanted to get from them a definite commitment that they were going to get the South African troops out.
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If anybody attacks us we will readjust and mobilise ourselves for action immediately. That will be the end of the ceasefire if it happens during the ceasefire period. If it happens after we have won the elections, naturally we will put up a resistance.
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The anti-imperialist, forces in the country [Zimbabwe] here, I think are not that strong. The capitalist forces, the reactionary forces are far more formidable, far better organised. But we would have wanted to hear the voice of the anti-imperialist forces, those who espouse the cause of freedom, the cause of independence, everywhere.
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If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so that I marry him first.
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There are many refugees, if not more refugees inside the country than outside the country. There is also the question of working to aid us at the present moment when we are campaigning for elections.
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The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.
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Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.
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Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
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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.
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In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.
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The voice of Mr Bush and the voice of Mr Blair can't decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in Venezuela, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq.
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We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
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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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Dont fight even over girlfriends. The country is full of beautiful women. If you cant get one, come to Mugabe for assistance.
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Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove.
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We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
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