{"id":13341,"date":"2019-09-07T19:57:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T17:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=13341"},"modified":"2019-09-07T19:57:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T17:57:50","slug":"robert-mugabe-famous-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/robert-mugabe-famous-quotes","title":{"rendered":"Robert Mugabe famous quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\u201cWe belong to this continent, Africa. We don\u2019t mind having and bearing sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans. We have not asked for any inch of Europe. \u2026 So, Blair \u2014 keep your England and let me keep my Zimbabwe.\u201d (2002)<span id=\"more-3096224744031404\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe are still exchanging blows with the British government. They are using gay gangsters. Each time I pass through London, the gangster regime of Blair expresses its dismay.\u201d \u2014 Reference to Peter Tatchell after attempted arrest (October 1999)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe need continuity in our race, and that comes from the woman, and no to homosexuality. John and John, no; Maria and Maria, no \u2026 I keep pigs, and the male pigs know the female ones.\u201d (2013)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe only white man you can trust is a dead white man.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country, he must come so that I marry him first.\u201d \u2014 2015 after US Supreme Court legalises same-sex marriages<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSome are saying, \u2018Mr Mugabe is old, so he should step down\u2019 \u2026 No! When my time comes, I will tell you.\u201d (2014)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOur party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy.\u201d \u2014 Addressing a political rally in 2000<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe British were brought up as a violent people, liars, scoundrels and crooks\u2026 I am told that (former British PM Tony) Blair was a troublesome little boy at school.\u201d (2001)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMandela has gone a bit too far in doing good to the non-black communities, really in some cases at the expense of (blacks)\u2026 That\u2019s being too saintly, too good.\u201d (2013)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI 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.\u201d \u2014 Funeral of a Cabinet minister (2003)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSome of us were embarrassed, if not frightened, by what appeared to be the return of the biblical giant gold Goliath. Are we having a return of Goliath to our midst, who threatens the extinction of other countries?\u2026 May I say to the United States President, Mr Trump, please blow your trumpet. Blow your trumpet in a musical way towards the values of unity, peace, cooperation, togetherness, dialogue, which we have always stood for.\u201d \u2014 United Nations General Assembly (2013)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI wanted children and this is how I thought I could get them. I knew what I was doing and my wife knew.\u201d (Before his first wife died in 1992, Mugabe started a relationship with Grace, whom he married in 1996.) (1998)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAfrican resources belong to Africa. Others may come to assist as our friends and allies, but no longer as colonisers or oppressors, no longer as racists.\u201d \u2014 After election as AU chair in 2015<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI have died many times. That\u2019s where I have beaten Christ. Christ died once and resurrected once. I have died and resurrected and I don\u2019t know how many times I will die and resurrect.\u201d \u2014 State radio on 88th birthday<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOnly God, who appointed me, will remove me \u2014 not the MDC, not the British. Only God will remove me!\u201d \u2014 2008 election rally<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBritain is a very cold, uninhabitable country with small houses.\u201d \u2014 Mutare rally 2013<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe 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\u2026 So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.\u201d \u2014 Earth Summit, South Africa (2002)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCricket civilises people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.\u201d (Widely reported quote)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLet Mr Bush read history correctly. Let him realise that both personally and in his representative capacity as the current president of the United States, he stands for this \u2018civilisation\u2019, which occupied, which colonised, which incarcerated, which killed. He has much to atone for and very little to lecture us on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. His hands drip with [the] innocent blood of many nationalities.\u201d \u2014 UN General Assembly (2007)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGrooming a successor, is it an inheritance? In a democratic party, you don\u2019t want leaders appointed that way. They have to be appointed properly by the people.\u201d \u2014 Television interview (2016)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe wrongs of the past must now stand forgiven and forgotten. If ever we look to the past, let us do so for the lesson the past has taught us, namely that oppression and racism are inequalities that must never find scope in our political and social system. It could never be a correct justification that just because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, the blacks must oppress them today because they have power. An evil remains an evil whether practised by white against black or black against white.\u201d \u2014 Independence speech (1980)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe courts can do whatever they want, but no judicial decision will stand in our way \u2026 My own position is that we should not even be defending our position in the courts. This country is our country and this land is our land \u2026 They think because they are white they have a divine right to our resources. Not here. The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans, Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.\u201d \u2014 2001 at the height of farm invasions<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.\u201d \u2014 Zanu PF conference (2000)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"relpost-thumb-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"relpost-thumb-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe belong to this continent, Africa. We don\u2019t mind having and bearing sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans. We have not asked for any inch of Europe. \u2026 So, Blair \u2014 keep your England and let me keep my Zimbabwe.\u201d (2002) \u201cWe are still exchanging blows with the British government. 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