Samora Machel Quotes
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.
Machel, Samora. "The State Apparatus is not an Abstraction." Samora Machel, An African Revolutionary: Selected Speeches and Writings, edited by Barry Munslow, Zed Books, 1985.
The Newspaper acknowledged that the conquest of Mexico was tantamount to a rape, but the editors were convinced that the Mexicans would be very happy once they were in the American orbit. In almost every case in American history where we invaded and occupied a country, the political leadership, most of Congress, and many American citizens were convinced that American freedom and democracy were so much better than any other form of government that the conquered people would not only welcome the Americans but would voluntarily reorganize their governmental structures to have a democracy. While there were always some people in each country who did feel that way, the majority rarely did, much to American surprise.
Samora Moisés Machel was a Mozambican military commander and political leader. A socialist in the tradition of Marxism–Leninism, he served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in 1975. Machel died in office in 1986 when his presidential aircraft crashed near the Mozambican-South African border.
