Idi Amin Dada citations

Idi Amin Dada Oumee, né Idi Awo-Ongo Angoo à Koboko entre 1923 et 1925 et mort à Djeddah le 16 août 2003, est un militaire et homme d'État ougandais, exerçant un pouvoir absolu sur le pays entre le 25 janvier 1971 et le 11 avril 1979, en tant que président à vie. Il a laissé l’image d’un dictateur fou, violent et sanguinaire. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. mai 1925 – 16. août 2003
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Idi Amin Dada: 13 citations0 J'aime

Idi Amin Dada: Citations en anglais

“Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.”

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Quoted in The Evil 100 (2004) by Martin Gilman Wolcott, p. 78.
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“In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.”

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Quoted in Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations, 1982, Jonathon Green.
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“You cannot run faster than a bullet.”

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Quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 51.
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“Politics is like boxing — you try to knock out your opponents.”

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Interview, African summit talks, Angola, January 1976. Reported p.A8, Palm Beach Post, January 12, 1976.

“I am the hero of Africa.”

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Quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, by James Beasley Simpson, p. 1.
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“His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.”

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His full, formal title, which he conferred upon himself. Quoted inAfricana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999) by Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates
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“He is killer and clown, big-hearted buffoon and strutting martinet.”

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Uganda. Amin:The Wild Man of Africa, March 07, 1977, Time magazine.

“Racist, erratic and unpredictable, brutal, inept, bellicose, irrational, ridiculous, and militaristic.”

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About Amin's regime. Telegram 1 From the Embassy in Uganda to the Department of State, January 2, 1973, 0700Z, U.S. Ambassador Thomas Patrick Melady. US Department of State http://web.archive.org/web/20060610225514/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/nixon/e6/66834.htm.

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