18 Quotes by Amilcar Cabral

We must practice revolutionary democracy in every aspect of our Party life. Every responsible member must have the courage of his responsibilities, exacting from others a proper respect for his work and properly respecting the work of others. 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...

Struggle is daily action against ourselves and against the enemy.

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...

The problem of the nature of the state created after independence is perhaps the secret of the failure of African independence.

There is a preconception held by many people, even on the left, that imperialism made us enter history at the moment when it began its adventure in our countries

We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

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.

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people’s history and a determinant of history.

Do not confuse the reality you live in with the ideas you have in your head.