Robert Mugabe: Inspiring Quotes from Zimbabwe’s Longest-Serving Leader
Only God, who appointed me, will remove me – not the MDC, not the British.
Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.
Our economy is a hundred times better now than it was at the turn of the century.
True, some lands have been taken away from the whites. But they were not using them for productive purposes.
The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.
My people have great expectations, and I must lead them to realize those expectations.
We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence.
We are not hungry… Why foist this food upon us? We don’t want to be choked. We have enough.
We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder… We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.
Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.
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, I would say let the Commonwealth go.
We don’t mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
What is the problem? We now own the land? We will not let go of what we have.
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!
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. – Robert Mugabe
I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once. – Robert Mugabe
We will have no mercy for white people regarding the land, they cannot own our soil. – Robert Mugabe
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. – Robert Mugabe
I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective, justice for his own people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people, and their right to their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold. – Robert Mugabe
The more you suppress us, the higher we go. – Robert Mugabe
Only God who appointed me will remove me ? not the MDC, not the British. Only God will remove me! – Robert Mugabe
It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, the blacks must oppress them today because they have power. – Robert Mugabe
One way or the other, we must make the sacrifices that our independence, political and economic, was never going to be granted to us just like that without the shedding of blood. – Robert Mugabe
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races. – Robert Mugabe
The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.
Only God who appointed me will remove me.
True, some lands were stolen. That’s true. But they were stolen by you British imperialists!
Our constitution is a bit too much of a copycat of the British constitution because we thought it would make us look civilised.
Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world.
Don’t drink at all, don’t smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.
Cricket civilises people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.
We are not gays!
When one’s goat gets missing, the aroma of a neighbour’s soup gets suspicious.
Education, politics, economy, and health; that’s all one needs to know. We have fallen behind in all these areas. We are last in everything. There is a good reason for this. We are not concentrating on these things.
It’s not possible that women can be at par with men.
I have died many times. That’s where I have beaten Christ. Christ died once and resurrected once. I have died and resurrected and I don’t know how many times I will die and resurrect.
I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective, justice for his own people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people, and their rights to their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold.
What is the use of computers? All they give you are headaches.
We take comfort yet agitate for our total ownership and exploitation of our resources without delay.
It could be a man-made disaster, this planet they call Mars.