Robert Mugabe Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Robert Mugabe
What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors. — Robert Mugabe
Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not. — Robert Mugabe
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, — Robert Mugabe
The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people ... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality. — Robert Mugabe
I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once. — Robert Mugabe
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. — Robert Mugabe
Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe? ... What is lacking now are goods on the shelves-that is all. — Robert Mugabe
Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity. — Robert Mugabe
South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won't even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he's a foreigner — Robert Mugabe
In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy. — Robert Mugabe
We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder ... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards. — Robert Mugabe
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. — Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwe will never be a colony again. — Robert Mugabe
True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement. — Robert Mugabe
Only God who appointed me will remove me. — Robert Mugabe
How come Kony gets a viral video made about him and i don't — Robert Mugabe
Dont fight even over girlfriends. The country is full of beautiful women. If you cant get one, come to Mugabe for assistance. — Robert Mugabe
If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads. — Robert Mugabe
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. — Robert Mugabe
We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans. — Robert Mugabe
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. — Robert Mugabe
The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans. — Robert Mugabe
We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas. — Robert Mugabe
There are things one must do for oneself. — Robert Mugabe
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. — Robert Mugabe
Grooming a successor, is it an inheritance? In a democratic party, you don't want leaders appointed that way. They have to be appointed properly by the people. — Robert Mugabe
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating. — Robert Mugabe
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. — Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwe has lots of safaris, but very few are African. Most are white-owned. In our region, we have the most safaris and animals. Our people cannot keep suffering. — Robert Mugabe
We will have no mercy for white people regarding the land, they cannot own our soil. — Robert Mugabe
We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done. — Robert Mugabe
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. — Robert Mugabe
If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so that I marry him first. — Robert Mugabe
I have been given a list of 35 white farmers in Mashonaland West alone. We say no to whites owning our land, and they should go ... They can own companies and apartments ... but not the soil. It is ours, and that message should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States. — Robert Mugabe
People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency. — 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
Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen. — 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
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
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. — Robert Mugabe
It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power. — Robert Mugabe
We are not hungry ... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough. — Robert Mugabe
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? — Robert Mugabe
We are now being coerced to accept and believe that a new political-cum-religious doctrine has arisen, namely that 'there is but one political god, George Bush, and Tony Blair is his prophet — Robert Mugabe
The only white man you can trust is a dead white man. — Robert Mugabe
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. — Robert Mugabe
Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy! — Robert Mugabe
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse. — Robert Mugabe
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. — Robert Mugabe
Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum & you realise witchcraft is real — Robert Mugabe
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. — Robert Mugabe
Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations? — Robert Mugabe
It's not possible that women can be at par with men, — Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans; so are its resources. — Robert Mugabe