Quotes by Samora Machel - Page 1

Unity and victory are synonymous.
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Diversity
Justice
Unity
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For the nation to live, the tribe must die.
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Die
Live
Nation
Must
Tribe
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The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.
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Abstraction
States
Apparatus
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The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
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Exploitation
Fight
Main
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Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.
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Fame
Personality
Revolution
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Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.
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Revolution
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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Catholic
Catholic Church
Church
Colonial
Fascist
Regime
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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Parasites
People
People Nothing More
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To Africanize colonial and capitalist power would destroy the meaning of our struggle.
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Capitalist
Colonial
Destroy
Meaning Of
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Imperialist exploitation and an unjust international economic order are a cause of war.
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Economic
Exploitation
International
Unjust
Cause
Imperialist
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Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.
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Charity
Ethics
Fighting
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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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Committed
Firsts
Organized
People
Serving
States
Totally
Be The First
Interests
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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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Legal
Essentials
Law
Legal System
Socialist
Socialist Economy
Basis
Enterprises
Essential
Link
Objective
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In four continents, workers, taking control of their destiny, are building a happy future, are building socialism, communism.
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Communism
Continents
Socialism
Workers
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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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Medical
Men
Built
Care
Dog
Medical Care
Rich
Vaccines
Wealth
Workers
Gets
Vaccination
Whom
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We must take the initiative; we must be permanently on the offensive. It is the battle of class struggle. We must keep the enemy always on the defensive.
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Battle
Class
Class Struggle
Enemy
Initiative
Offensive
Struggle
Defensive
Permanently
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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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Enterprise
Reality
Salary
Wages
Performance
Planned
Reflect
Salaries
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Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.
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Discipline
Laziness
Relaxation
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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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Apartheid
Cooperation
Mankind
Destroy
Regional
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people. We must always be clear that the example is set at the top.
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Clear
Committed
Example
Organized
Serving
Totally
Always Must People
Be The First
Interests
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The accumulated experience of mankind in the struggle against exploitation, synthesized in Marxism, enabled the Mozambican revolutionary movement to benefit from and absorb that experience.
Samora Machel / Political Leader
Exploitation
Mankind
Movement
Revolutionary
Struggle
Absorb
Accumulate
Benefit
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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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Force
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Africa
Allow
Bring
Course
Set
Planned
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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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Individualistic
Integrated
Producers
Revolution
Collective
Destroys
Creates
Exploiting
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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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Independence
Conquer
Exploitation
Benefit
Construct
Install
Objective
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Smartness, a good appearance, courtesy, delicacy are not yet norms, are not yet an integral part of the approach of workers in the state apparatus, of their approach either to work or to dealing with the public.
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Approach
Courtesy
Delicacy
Workers
Apparatus
Public
Dealing
Either
Integral
Integral Part
Norms
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For the oppressed peoples and classes, for the peoples and workers who have taken control of their destiny, Marxism is a shining path, a sun of hope and certainty that never sets, a sun that is always at its zenith.
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Certainty
Marxism
Oppressed
Workers
Zenith
Classes
Sets
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Our country's liberation struggle arose as a consequence of the contradiction between colonized and colonizers, between exploited and exploiters. Reformist patterns of nationalist pressure were precluded by the very nature of colonial fascism.
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Consequence
Contradiction
Fascism
Liberation
Patterns
Pressure
Struggle
Colonial
Exploited
Nationalist
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International solidarity is not an act of charity: It is an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objective. The foremost of these objectives is to aid the development of humanity to the highest level possible.
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Fighting
Humanity
Unity
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Some people, with a certain nostalgia, the worshippers and admirers of the colonial system, cherish and nurse its structures instead of smashing them. This is typical of a mentality in bondage to decadent values, negative values - counter-revolutionary values.
Samora Machel / Political Leader
Bondage
Certain
Cherish
Mentality
Negative
Nostalgia
Nurse
Smashing
Typical
Admirers
Colonial
Decadent
Instead
Some People
Structures
System
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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.
Samora Machel / Political Leader
History
Society
Contribution
Done
Important
Mentality
Our Generation
Principal
Revolution
Struggle
Build
Understand
Armed
Create
Essential
Generation
Record
Realized
The Most Important
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