The Best Robert Mugabe quotes

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans. — Robert Mugabe

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man. — Robert Mugabe

It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power. — Robert Mugabe

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy! — Robert Mugabe

Zimbabwe has lots of safaris, but very few are African. Most are white–owned. In our region, we have the most safaris and animals. Our people cannot keep suffering. — Robert Mugabe

South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner — Robert Mugabe

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones. — Robert Mugabe

I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement. — Robert Mugabe

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy. — Robert Mugabe

We will defend our victory through armed struggle. We will have to do that. — Robert Mugabe

Our small and peaceful country is threatened daily by covetous and bigoted big powers whose hunger for domination and control of other nations and their resources knows no bounds. — Robert Mugabe

Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves–that is all. — Robert Mugabe

South Africa needs a second liberation. — Robert Mugabe

This has caused confusion among zimbabweans, the business community, current and potential investors, thereby undermining market confidence. — Robert Mugabe

There are things one must do for oneself. — Robert Mugabe

What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors. — Robert Mugabe

Some girls have never seen the doors of a gym but look physically fit because of running from one man to another. — Robert Mugabe

We are not hungry… Why foist this food upon us? We don’t want to be choked. We have enough. — Robert Mugabe

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating. — Robert Mugabe

If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same–sex couples in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so that I marry him first. — Robert Mugabe

The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like Animal Farm, where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals? — Robert Mugabe

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not. — Robert Mugabe

We expected anyway that the democratic forces which have agreed with us in Zimbabwe would have rallied behind us. But it was a difficult struggle. — Robert Mugabe

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder… We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards. — 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. — Robert Mugabe

We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood… So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe. — Robert Mugabe

We are living in a generation where people ‘in love’ are free to touch each other’s private parts but are not allowed to touch each other’s phones because they are private. — Robert Mugabe

He was voted in last year for a five–year term, so why is the issue arising?. — Robert Mugabe

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change. — Robert Mugabe

Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans; so are its resources. — Robert Mugabe

Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations? — Robert Mugabe

The armed struggle is not ending just now. We are upholding a ceasefire. We have our arms with us. — Robert Mugabe

We are now being coerced to accept and believe that a new political–cum–religious doctrine has arisen, namely that ‘there is but one political god, George Bush, and Tony Blair is his prophet” — Robert Mugabe

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them. — Robert Mugabe

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity. — Robert Mugabe