Morgan Tsvangirai Quotations

We want peace in this country and we want national healing,

There are people in this country who have been killed, raped and assaulted and we're saying the government must take responsibility,

Mugabe has pushed his luck too far in terms of fighting the world. There's no way a country can live as an island and the fact that he's been defying both national and international opinion has had an effect on the general feelings within ZANU-PF,

mount a national crusade against the senate elections.

to continue the dialogue with a view to finding an expeditious resolution of the dispute in the party.

We are going to rally every Zimbabwean in the urban areas and rural areas for a peaceful resistance against this regime.

We have nothing to show for our independence, except overwhelming poverty.

The people are now crying for peace and national healing,

We are not happy with the way the electoral playing field has been organized, and I think we all agree on all benchmarks this is not going to be a free and fair election,

We are meeting on Saturday and all options (including a strike) are on the table,

We arrived at the conclusion that the objective conditions do not exist for meaningful discussion because (Mugabe's party) ZANU-PF is embarking on mass retribution against our members in the rural areas.

We will not be party to any Caesarian operation by South Africa. We are not going to have short-cuts...and force issues on Zimbabweans.

We do not want to put people deliberately in harm's way because of the current lack of accountability in government.

After intense debate and discussion, whereupon the guiding question was whether we compromise with or take on the ZANU-PF dictatorship ... the council resolved to stay out of the ZANU-PF senate project,

That paradigm shift involves the issue of building a democratic people's resistance movement and other options available democratically and that elections are not just exclusive to the achievement of that objective.

Zanu PF is preoccupied with establishing a Senate while ignoring critical national issues that need attention,