Samora Machel
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.Collection: Hope
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.Collection: Independence
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.Collection: Medical
It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.Collection: Legal
For the nation to live, the tribe must die.
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.
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.
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.
To Africanize colonial and capitalist power would destroy the meaning of our struggle.
The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.
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.
The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
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.
Imperialist exploitation and an unjust international economic order are a cause of war.
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.
The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.
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.
There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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.
Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
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.
In four continents, workers, taking control of their destiny, are building a happy future, are building socialism, communism.
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.
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.Collection: Fighting
Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.Collection: Personality
Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.Collection: Discipline
Unity and victory are synonymous.Collection: Justice
Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.Collection: Fighting