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The one-party state is a marvelous instrument for a war of liberation but as a government system, in every country at every latitude, it has revealed the same defects; it represents only one point of view.

— Ahmed Ben Bella

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Revolutions are very complex. Nothing is easy. Few people want to risk their necks.

I was always religious but I feel it more today because our epoch demands it.

The struggle for liberation was terrible. We were bruised and wounded by colonialism.

Far from denying our option, Islam identifies itself with equality in the minds of the masses, and therefore moves towards socialism.

At that time, the fight was for the liberation of Algeria from the French. Now there is a fight to liberate the world from globalization.

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