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President Mugabe quotable quotes

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IN his entire 93 years, His Excellency President Robert Mugabe will be remembered for his wisdom and powerful message, especially to world bullies.
Most of his life has been dedicated to the liberation of Zimbabwe before and after independence.
Below are some of his famous quotes delivered over the years.
“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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“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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“We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.” 
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“We are not hungry… Why foist this food upon us? We don’t want to be choked. We have enough.”
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“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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“We have this American President, Obama, born of an African father, who is saying we will not give you aid if you don’t embrace homosexuality. We ask, was he born out of homosexuality? We need continuity in our race, and that comes from the woman, and no to homosexuality.”
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“I am glad that Zimbabwe and China speak the same language on many issues. We share the same conviction that only a fair, just and non-prescriptive world order, based on the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, can deliver the development we all need.”
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“The only whiteman you can trust is a dead whiteman.”
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“Our small and peaceful country is threatened daily by covetous and bigoted big powers whose hunger for domination and control of other nations and their resources knows no bounds.”
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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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“I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective; justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their rights over their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be Hitler tenfold. Ten times, that is what we stand for.”
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“Mr Bush, Mr Blair and now Mr Brown’s sense of human rights precludes our people’s right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists.”
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“The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like an ‘Animal Farm’ where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals?”
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“We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall never collapse, never ever.”
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“I am an educationist. I’m an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?”
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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.”
“Archbishop Tutu said it is nice to be gay, yet he has a wife. He should have begun by getting himself a man for a woman…When you are a bishop and cannot interpret the Bible, you should resign and give it to those who can. We will not compromise our tradition and tolerate homosexuality.”
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“We need continuity in our race, and that comes from the woman, and no to homosexuality. John and John, no; Maria and Maria, no…I keep pigs and the male pig knows the female one.” 
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“We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood…. So, Blair, keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.”
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“In politics you have to be a shock absorber…I don’t care what people will say about me, as long as I am right and as long as people I lead approve (of) what I say, then we can go on.”

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