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Lounès Matoub Quotes

1956–1998 Algeria

Lounès Matoub (Kabyle: Maɛtub Lwennas 24 January 1956 – 25 June 1998) was a Kabyle singer, poet, and thinker who sparked an intellectual revolution, and mandole player who was an advocate of the Amazigh cause, human rights, and secularism in Algeria throughout his life.

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My freedom stops where the freedom of others begins.

I have a responsibility because, as we say: He who knows nothing is an idiot but he who knows and says nothing is a criminal.

Since time immemorial songs have always been used to convey a message. There are songs and songs - those that entertain, those that enlighten. I feel I am a witness of my time.

I refuse to see Tamazight taught in a sick school.I don't want to see our language developed in a system incapable of managing values as important as freedom, respect for others, justice and democracy.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lounès Matoub (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.