Mozambique Quotes

• In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

  Carl Sagan

  Men, Stories, Monkeys

  Carl Sagan (2016). “Contact”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• Pero en Uganda, Mozambique y Sudáfrica, la gente no habla mucho de sexo y los líderes religiosos -algunos de ellos- se han mostrado muy reacios a aceptar, por ejemplo, la promoción del uso del preservativo.

  Emma Thompson

  Religious, Sex, Uganda

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• Go to Mozambique! As long as you don't expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people have not quite grown accustomed to tourists. You still feel a genuineness that no longer exists in countries where tourism has been industrially developed.

  Henning Mankell

  País, Largo, Gente

  "Henning Mankell's Mozambique". www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• This is the only country in the world, that worries about what it is. The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are.

  Neil Gaiman

  Country, Heart, Worry

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS...There's astounding conditions but what I was left with...was the power of the human spirit there and the fact these people have been through so much and they were still dancing in the streets

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Fighting, People, Dancing

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• At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.

  Henning Mankell

  Running, Country, Leaving

  "Henning Mankell's Mozambique". www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• La tragedia de las guerras civiles en países como Angola y Mozambique es que dejaron a muchos civiles mutilados. La pobreza es la razón por la que el VIH/SIDA se extendió tan rápidamente en los townships y slums africanos. La pobreza es el verdadero asesino.

  Miriam Makeba

  País, Real, Guerra

  Al-Ahram Weekly interview, 2001.

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• Sudáfrica, con el apoyo de Estados Unidos, después de la caída del imperio portugués, invadió Angola y Mozambique para establecer allí su propio régimen títere. Trataban de proteger a Namibia, de proteger el apartheid, y nadie hizo gran cosa al respecto; pero los cubanos enviaron fuerzas, y además enviaron soldados negros y derrotaron a un ejército mercenario blanco, lo que no sólo rescató a Angola, sino que provocó una conmoción en todo el continente -fue una conmoción psíquica-: se pretendía que los mercenarios blancos eran invencibles, y un ejército negro los derrotó y los hizo huir de vuelta a Sudáfrica.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fall, Army, Psychics

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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• When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're a hunter, and build towers to watch the animals move. I knew I would never understand the world without that perspective. I came to Africa for that rational reason, although I love Mozambique now.

  Henning Mankell

  Moving, Animal, Europe

  "All along the watchtower" by Nick Hasted, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2002.

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• Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.

  Paul Theroux

  Charity, Donors, Existence

  Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown”, p.421, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women determined to change the course of the future for themselves and their families.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Feminism, Sierra Leone, Generations

  "Feminism's global challenge: With one voice" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. March 05, 2011.

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• I contracted malaria in rural Mozambique. I was a youth ambassador for Australia. For a year after high school, you give positive speeches about Australia and as part of it I traveled to lots of different countries.

  Rebel Wilson

  Country, School, Years

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• Llegué a Mozambique en 1986, cuando empecé a colaborar con el Teatro Avenida, una compañía de teatro que representa obras de temática política y social.

  Henning Mankell

  Play, Issues, Political

  "Henning Mankell's Mozambique". www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the late 1990s, there would be a serious threat to the water flow down the Nile on which 10 countries depend.

  Nicholas Stern

  Country, Weather, Water

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