Samora Machel

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

— Samora Machel

Unity and victory are synonymous.

— Samora Machel

“Almost everyone know the G3 gun. In the hands of the enemy the G3 is used to oppress and slaughter the people,…

— Samora Machel

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

— Samora Machel

We must take the initiative; we must be permanently on the offensive. It is the battle of class struggle. We must keep…

— Samora Machel

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people. We must always…

— Samora Machel

The accumulated experience of mankind in the struggle against exploitation, synthesized in Marxism, enabled the Mozambican revolutionary movement to benefit from and…

— Samora Machel

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

— Samora Machel

Some people, with a certain nostalgia, the worshippers and admirers of the colonial system, cherish and nurse its structures instead of smashing…

— Samora Machel

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

— 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…

— Samora Machel

Smartness, a good appearance, courtesy, delicacy are not yet norms, are not yet an integral part of the approach of workers in…

— Samora Machel

The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.

— Samora Machel

We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation,…

— Samora Machel

Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty…

— Samora Machel

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.

— Samora Machel

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

— Samora Machel

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

— Samora Machel

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

— Samora Machel

International solidarity is not an act of charity: It is an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the…

— Samora Machel

Our country's liberation struggle arose as a consequence of the contradiction between colonized and colonizers, between exploited and exploiters. Reformist patterns of…

— Samora Machel

The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.

— Samora Machel

For the oppressed peoples and classes, for the peoples and workers who have taken control of their destiny, Marxism is a shining…

— Samora Machel

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

— Samora Machel

Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers…

— Samora Machel