Samora Machel Quotes
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For the nation to live, the tribe must die.
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The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty of all mankind to destroy it.
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Mozambique and Zimbabwe must bring into being a new force in Malawi. We must not allow South Africa to set the course in Malawi... The victory is being planned... It demands cold-bloodedness.
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
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The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.
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Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.
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Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into the collectivity.
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Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.
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To Africanize colonial and capitalist power would destroy the meaning of our struggle.