"Portugal is controlled by a government which does not even accept the idea of democracy and individual freedom for the people of metropolitan Portugal. Consequently it is inconceivable that it would voluntarily accept the idea that colonial peoples like ourselves should have these rights, much less independence."
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Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane, founding President of FRELIMO until his assassination by Portugal, in a 1967 interview with Helen Kitchen
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