My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France

I spent 24 and a half years in prison

When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.

Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word

I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.