Samora Machel Quotes
Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.
Machel, Samora. Mozambique: Sowing the Seeds of Revolution. Committee for Freedom in Mozambique, Angola and Guiné, 1974.
There were many Americans who were Tories and proBritish. There were also many who, while they were not pro British, were not enthusiastic about the Revolution and the death and devastation that it brought. In France however, the American Revolution was seen in much more romantic and theoretical terms. See {621958} and {621957}.
The Oslo Accords that Perez was signing when he made this quotation were the first written agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. He and Yasser Arafat were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for this accomplishment which was a revolution. However, it petered out as the Palestinians resorted to more terrorism and the Israeli voters turned to the right and by Perez’s death in 2016, there had not been any progress toward peace or a two state solution.
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.