Hồ Chí Minh QUOTES

1 " To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people. "

2 " Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability. "

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3 " It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me. "

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4 " You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first. "

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5 " The U.S. imperialists supply armaments to their henchmen to massacre the Indochinese peoples. They dump their goods in Indochina to prevent the development of local handicrafts. Their pornographic culture depraves the youth in areas placed under their control. They follow the policy of buying up, deluding and dividing our people. They strive to turn some bad elements into U.S. agents that they use for the conquest of our country. "

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6 " The U.S. directed military-political aims at present are to herd the entire population in the countryside of South Vietnam into concentration camps - fortified villages surrounded with barbed wire entanglements and moats - from which the peasants may leave only in daylight hours under the guns of the U.S - Diemist troops. The main military operations are designed to sweep the peasants up into the so-called 'strategic hamlets', the concentration camp villages. The people of South Vietnam resist this, they refuse to live like slaves. With primitive arms made by themselves and those they can capture from their oppressors they fight back. In order to increase the pressure on them, U.S. planes have of late greatly stepped up their barbaric campaign of destroying rice and other food crops by air-sprayed chemicals and thus starve the peasants into submission. "

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7 " The successes recorded by our Southern compatriots show that the U.S. imperialists, no matter what modern weapons they may have, are not to be feared. "

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8 " The U.S. imperialists are expanding their war against national independence and peace in Vietnam. They are committing monstrous atrocities and crimes more odious than the Hitlerite fascists. "

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9 " You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win. "

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10 " It is well known that the black race is the most oppressed and most exploited of the human family. It is well known that the spread of capitalism and the discovery of the New World had as an immediate result the rebirth of slavery which was, for centuries, a scourge for the Negroes and a bitter disgrace for mankind. What everyone does not perhaps know, is that after sixty-five years of so-called emancipation, American Negroes still endure atrocious moral and material sufferings, of which the most cruel and horrible is the custom of lynching. "

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11 " I follow only one party: the Vietnamese party "

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12 " Mr. Schoenbrun, we have a secret weapon ... don't smile when I tell you this. Our secret weapon is nationalism. To have nationhood, which is a sign of maturity, is greater than any weapons in the world. "

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13 " After the rain, good weather.
In the wink of an eye,
the universe throws off its muddy clothes. "

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14 " I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder. "

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15 " The great victory of April 30 represents the triumph of the entire nation, of justice over brutality and of humanity over tyranny. "

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16 " It may take three years, it may take five, it may take ten, but that will be the war of Indo-china. "

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17 " We are convinced that the Allied nations which ... have acknowledged the principles of self-determination and equality of nations, will not refuse to acknowledge the independence of Vietnam. "

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18 " Eyes must look far ahead, and thoughts be deeply pondered.
Be bold and unremitting in attack.
Give the wrong command, and two chariots are rendered useless.
Come the right moment, a pawn can bring you victory. "

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19 " These crimes were all motivated by economic jealousy. Either the Negroes in the area were more prosperous than the Whites, or the black workers would not let themselves be exploited thoroughly. In all cases, the principal culprits were never troubled, for the simple reason that they were always incited, encouraged, spurred on, then protected, by the politicians, financiers, and authorities, and above all, by the reactionary press. "

― Hồ Chí Minh

20 " The morning sun
shines over the prison wall,

And drives away the shadows
and miasma of hopelessness.

A life-giving breeze
blows across the earth.

A hundred imprisoned faces
smile once more. "

― Hồ Chí Minh , The Prison Diary of Ho Chi Minh

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