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Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer – its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.

— Robert Mugabe

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Said in 1976 while a leading commander of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army

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