Samora Machel

“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.”

“There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.”

“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.”

“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.”