Houari Boumédiène
Houari Boumédiène, also transcribed as Boumediene, Boumedienne etc. (Arabic: هواري بومدين ; ALA-LC: Hawārī Bū-Madyan; 23 August 1932 – 27 December 1978), served as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of Algeria from 19 June 1965 until 12 December 1976 and thereafter as the second President of Algeria until his death on 27 December 1978.
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Quotes
[edit]- Today, international relations are dominated by a many-faceted world-wide confrontation
- No quantity of atomic bombs could stem the tide of billions...who will some day leave the poor Southern part of the world to erupt into the relatively accessible spaces of the rich Northern Hemisphere looking for survival.
- Quoted in Bob Reiss, 'The Melting Pot', Potomac Magazine in The Washington Post (17 July 1977), p. 27, quoted in Gary L. Peters and Robert P. Larkin, Population Geography: Problems, Concepts, and Prospects (1979), p. 189
Misattributed
[edit]- One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.
- reportedly during a 1974 speech to the United Nations, as reported by Loonwatch on 25 March 2017
