Robert Mugabe Quotes – Words of Wisdom from the Former Zimbabwean President
We are not hungry… Why foist this food upon us? We don’t want to be choked. We have enough.
Only God, who appointed me, will remove me – not the MDC, not the British. Only God will remove me!
The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.
Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.
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.
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country, he must come here so that I marry him first.
Our party must continue to strike fear into 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.
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.
Only God who appointed me will remove me from power.
I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.
I will never, never sell my country. I will die a hundred times before I betray the sovereignty of my country!
While the MDC fears the soldier, the war veterans elevate him as a national hero.
Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept, will seek to remove.
If you are gay, you are not African.
Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is alimented? Zimbabwe is the country alimented by the outside world, no other.
When your clothes get worn and torn, they are not thrown away. They are patched and sewn.
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.
We don’t mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
It’s not the African way to give up.
I have an enormous appetite for power, but I can’t eat an elephant on my own.
We don’t make excuses. Africa must take full responsibility for its own development.
Don’t fight about a word when we are not in control of that word. We are not IAEA, we are not MBC, we are ICC for as long as we hold our identity.
There are white men who helped us fight the white men. We took a decision to fight against white minority rule not because we wanted the land but because we wanted to be free.
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiations.
The land is ours. It’s not European, it’s not Asian, it’s not anyone else’s. The land is ours. We are Zimbabweans. We have to live for Zimbabwe.
I want to keep Zimbabwe a Zimbabwe for a long, long time, until God says, ‘Come join me in heaven.’
Don’t give up the fight. No one should give up the fight. But remember, before you fight, you must be clear on what the issues are.
The day will never come when I say ‘I am white.’
We don’t mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
I am here, quite happy, with my 90 years I feel I have done my job.
Don’t drink at all, don’t smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.
I see myself as a johnny-come-lately. I am a latecomer to the world of politics.
Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!
I’ve just concluded – since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people and enjoys an attractive countenance thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee and ask his hand.
I have died many times. I have beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.
In Zimbabwe, we have the freedom of speech, freedom of insulting one another.
Unfortunately; one of the weaknesses of our education here in Africa is that we do not teach our children to treasure their African heritage.
For our white citizens, I prefer they go to Britain. They can be citizens of England because Britain is part of Europe. They can have all the access to all corners of Europe.
We would have attended the burial of Margaret Thatcher but not the one in London, the one in hell.
We, of Africa, let off steam and, like a procession of snails, crawl on our bellies under the iron sky.
Yes, of course. Why not? And rejoin the Commonwealth. That is our aim.
I say let Mr. Blair, the little tiny dot who has gone full cycle wanting to reverse history tell his fellow leaders on the continent that Blair says you must continue to submit to his medical world.
In Africa, as one head of State departs, another takes over and the same colonial masters remain behind.
Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
Britain is a very cold, uninhabitable country with small houses.
The principled stand I have taken is that it is the right of the Zimbabwean people to chose who will represent them in any governance mechanism.
We must teach our children to be hardworking, honest and truthful.
It is now in fashion to tear down statutes or rename buildings or streets named after former historical figures who some in the present take exception to. Many countries have joined this trend. We have one such monument here which is commented on by some who want it down. But why destroy it? Why not keep it and say let us debate; let us say he did this right; he did that wrong? Let’s sit down together and say ‘Are we together or not?