If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.
The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.
When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.
I have been given a list of 35 white farmers in Mashonaland West alone. We say no to whites owning our land, and they should go... They can own companies and apartments... but not the soil. It is ours, and that message should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States.
The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.