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We will defend our victory through armed struggle. We will have to do that.

Robert Mugabe

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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
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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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The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
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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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