“I call you 'comrades' rather than 'brothers and sisters' because if we are brothers and sisters it's not from choice, it's no commitment, but if you are my comrades I am your comrade too and that's a commitment and a responsibility.”
“We would like to salute all anti-colonialist people in this country, regardless of their tendencies or origins. In politics one has to be realistic... and we think it is essential that people wishing to act in solidarity with a movement such as ours should be united.”
“Our people call the hills in Boe region, in the south-east, mountains, because in Guine we don't really know what mountains are.”
“the manuals of guerrilla warfare generally state that a country has to be of a certain size to be able to create what is called a base, and, further, that mountains are the best place to develop guerrilla warfare.”
“As for the mountains, we decided that our people had to take their place, since it would be impossible to develop our struggle otherwise. So our people are our mountains.”
“The first step was to mobilise and organise our people politically; this took about three years... we adopted a further principle: to fight as economically as possible, since we can afford only the minimum of losses.”
“They bring their men and their arms to fight against us, destroying our villages; and they also oblige us to destroy our own property. Yet we can never touch them in their own country.”
“So, as part of our strategy, we have had to develop tactics which enable us, as far as possible, to avoid the destruction of our own country.”
“Our People Are Our Mountians.” Amílcar Cabral (1971) oldwars.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/our-pe…
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