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b. 1962
Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba (born 17 July 1962) is a Kenyan lawyer, activist, and public speaker. Born in Usenge, a town in Siaya County, Kenya., he is an Advocate of the High Courts of Kenya and Tanzania and a notable Pan-Africanist recognised as one of the leading public speakers across the African diaspora.He served as the director of the Kenya School of Law and as director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission from July 2010 to August 2011.
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You do not respond to a mosquito bite with a hammer.
The tragedy of this country is that one is judged by his ethnic extraction rather than the content of his mind.
We cannot run a country where virtue is vice and vice is a virtue.
Never lose sight of an antelope for a dashing squirrel.
A man may be a political animal, but there comes a time in a person’s life when true service must be the ultimate goal. In the history of our country, this is the time.
At all times, it should be remembered that our nations are fragile and like an egg, must be dealt with carefully.
Our Country must not have leaders whose greatest claim to fame is ill-gotten wealth and bellicose speeches at funerals.
Verily, verily, I tell you; any society that does not pay regard to the girl and her education is built on a foundation of sand.
Behind most of our so-called successful civil servants who have joined politics and business, there is collapsed or collapsing public institution they once served.
Parliamentarians must always remember that they are the people’s representatives. They must put themselves at the service of their Nation and not their Nation at their service as they often do.
The tree of democracy must inevitably be watered with blood. In this case, I am prepared to be the sacrificial lamb.
Sometimes our leaders behave like hunters and gatherers. The only difference is that they gather money, land, houses, and cars.
Peace has had a flirtatious relationship with this University. I want to be the High Priest who will preside over the marriage between peace and this University.
Women must protect their gains as prescribed in the Bomas Draft but within the context of a comprehensively sound Constitution. They must not seek a golden window in a house with a foundation of sand.
If our country is to realize its full potential, then the girl child must soar in education like the Eagle. It is not for nothing that we Africans say mother is supreme.
Today to say, ‘disability is not inability’ is a politically correct cliché. But let me tell you; our level of development will be measured by how we treat our men and women with disability.
I knew that my mind could think something better than being subjected to believe that violence gives birth to solutions.
Third World is a state of the mind and until we change our attitude as Africans, if there is a fourth, fifth and even sixth world, we will be in it.
The youth are the true barometers of the political and economic climate of any country. Therefore, take your pride of place; you are not leaders of tomorrow, start serving today.
The tiger does not shout about its tigritude, you see the skeleton of an antelope, and you know that some tigritude has emanated. Follow my footsteps and let history be my judge.
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