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The emancipation of women is not an act of charity, the result of a humanitarian or compassionate attitude. The liberation of women is a fundamental necessity for the Revolution, the guarantee of its continuity and the preconditions for its victory.

— Samora Machel The Emancipation of Women (1973)

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Solidarity is not an act of charity but an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objectives.

The struggle in Tete province is not separated from the development of the struggle in the other provinces. Therefore in order to understand the situation in Tete you have to know the political and military situation in the whole of Mozambique.

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