"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
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History
More From 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."
- "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."
- "We are not hungry… Why foist this food upon us? We don’t want to be choked. We have enough."
More In History
- "The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing."― David Attenborough
- "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."― Karl Marx
- "When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can’t teach poetry. This is ridiculous."― Norman MacCaig