Idi Amin citáty

Idi Amin byl v letech 1971–1979 prezidentem Ugandy, pro svou krutost přezdívaný jako řezník z Kampaly. Sám sebe nazýval „Jeho veličenstvo doživotní prezident, polní maršál Al Hadži doktor Idi Amin, pán všeho tvorstva na souši i ve vodě, přemožitel Britského impéria v celé Africe a především v Ugandě“. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. květen 1925 – 16. srpen 2003
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Idi Amin: Citáty anglicky

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

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.”

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

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.”

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

“I am the hero of Africa.”

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.”

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.”

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

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

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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