“The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.”

“Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children. . .”

“What are we if we are not products of our history? History is not in our past but forms us in the present. And how histories are written or interpreted depends on what we do today.”

“We are exactly what our history made us to be.”

“What history will say about us is of no importance; because we will be gone when the history judges about us.”

“History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.”

“History teaches us many things. Most importantly, the things that made us who and what we are.”