35 Quotes by Ahmed Ben Bella

From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so.

Algeria is not breaking up.

I spent 24 and a half years in prison

Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word

No, I live in Algeria, but I often come to Switzerland. I had lived here for ten years, after my quarrels with the Algerian military powers.

Immediately after independence, I was associated with all those who, in the world, themselves undertook the struggle to liberate their own country.

I myself, speaking as a man of the south, note that something has changed in the north, which is a very important point to raise.

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.