Samora Machel

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.”

“For the nation to live, the tribe must die.”

“Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.”

“To Africanize colonial and capitalist power would destroy the meaning of our struggle.”

“Imperialist exploitation and an unjust international economic order are a cause of war.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.”

“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.”

“In four continents, workers, taking control of their destiny, are building a happy future, are building socialism, communism.”