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.
Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.
You know how I always believe in the future. Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now.
Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
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