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.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the necessity of eliminating apartheid to enable collaboration and cooperation among regions.
Samora Machel's quote highlights that apartheid stands as a significant barrier to both economic and social cooperation across regions, suggesting that it is the moral responsibility of humanity to challenge and dismantle such systems of oppression. The assertion calls for collective action to ensure that justice and equality are foundational for any progress in cooperation.
In practice
A rally against apartheid where this quote can inspire attendees to take action.
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.
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.
You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.
Thankfully dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses. So whatever your dream is right now, if you don't achieve it, you haven't failed and you're not some loser-but just as importantly-if you do get your dream, you're not a winner.
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The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters
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